Unprecedented Retreat of Columbia Glacier Relative to the Last Millennium

• Main Author: Kilmer, Zoe
• Other Authors: Carlson, Anders, Oregon State University. Bioresource Research
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English; unknown
• Published: Oregon State University
• Subjects: Tidewater
• Online Access: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/undergraduate_thesis_or_projects/wh246v040

Columbia Glacier, Alaska’s most rapidly retreating body of ice, provides a compelling insight into the fragile state of tidewater glaciers worldwide. Catastrophic retreat of the glacier’s terminal ice margin began in 1978 when contact was lost with its stabilizing terminal moraine shoal. Since this...