A Possible Advanced Hypsithermal Position of the Donjek Glacier The icefield of the St. Elias Mountains in
the southwest Yukon Territory is the source of a number of large valley glaciers. The Donjek Glacier, one of the largest of the valley glaciers on the eastern side of the icefield, flows about 35 miles from the ice-field at an altitude of 10,000 feet to the terminus at 3,500 feet in the Donjek River...
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| Summary: | the southwest Yukon Territory is the source of a number of large valley glaciers. The Donjek Glacier, one of the largest of the valley glaciers on the eastern side of the icefield, flows about 35 miles from the ice-field at an altitude of 10,000 feet to the terminus at 3,500 feet in the Donjek River Valley (Fig. 1). The history of the glacier from 1935 to the present is well documented photographically (Walter A. Wood and Austin Post, personal communications). Documentation of the Hypsithermal and Wisconsin history of the glacier is less abundant. Denton and Stuiverl produced a detailed study of the glacier terminus area but there are a number of gaps in the Neo-glacial and Hypsithermal history. Other studies of relevance to the glacial history of the area re those of Sharp2, Krinsleys |
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