Observations on the Level of a Self-Draining Lake on the Casement Glacier, Alaska
A small ice-dammed glacial lake beside the Casement Glacier in south-eastern Alaska was observed to drain in two separate pulses during the summer of 1965. The initial discharge appears to have resulted when the ice lobe damming the lake was floated by the increasing depth of water. There is no good...
| Published in: | Journal of Glaciology |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1966
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000019572 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000019572 |
| Summary: | A small ice-dammed glacial lake beside the Casement Glacier in south-eastern Alaska was observed to drain in two separate pulses during the summer of 1965. The initial discharge appears to have resulted when the ice lobe damming the lake was floated by the increasing depth of water. There is no good explanation for the second rapid discharge but it may have been due to the sudden opening of crevasses. |
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