Multispectral image analysis of glaciers and glacier lakes in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska

• Main Authors: Kargel, Jeffrey S., Beedle, Matthew J., Bush, Andrew B. G., Carreño, Francisco, Castellanos, Elena, Haritashya, Umesh K., Leonard, Gregory J., Lillo, Javier, Lopez, Ivan, Pleasants, Mark, Pollock, Edward, Wolfe, David F.G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: eCommons 2014
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geology; Geomorphology; Geophysics and Seismology; Glaciology; Hydrology; Other Environmental Sciences; Paleontology; Sedimentology; Soil Science; Stratigraphy; Tectonics and Structure; Glacial Lake; ahtna; glacier; glaciers; Tidewater; Alaska
• Online Access: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/geo_fac_pub/12; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7_13

The Chugach Mountains contain the largest nonpolar alpine glaciers in the world and include a wide variety of glacier types: some are land terminating; some calve variously into tidewater, lakes, and rivers; some are heavily debris covered; some are surge-type, whereas others are neither debris cove...