Historie retreat of Grand Pacific and Melbern Glaciers, Saint Elias Mountains, Canada: an analogue for decay of the Cordilleran ice sheet at the end of the Pleistocene?
Abstract Grand Pacific and Melbern Glaciers, two of the largest valley glaciers in British Columbia, have decreased over 50% in volume in the last few hundred years (total ice loss = 250–300km 3 ). Melbern Glacier has thinned 300–600 m and retreated 15 km during this period; about 7 km of this retre...
| Published in: | Journal of Glaciology |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1994
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000004044 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000004044 |