Late Wisconsin and Recent History of the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska

Reports studies of this glacier in the upper Matanuska valley in 1953, 1954, and 1957, as part of the U.S. Geological Survey terrain and permafrost investigations in Alaska. Advances and retreats of the glacier, indicated by moraines and marginal channels, were traced. The results are outlined ampli...

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Published in:ARCTIC
Main Authors: Williams, John R., Ferrians, Jr., Oscar J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1961
Subjects:
Animal food
Biological sampling
Cannibalism
Ground squirrels
Internal organs
Lemmings
Polar bears
Predation
Seals (Animals)
Trichinella
Walruses
Arctic
glacier
permafrost
Alaska
walrus*
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66714
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Summary:Reports studies of this glacier in the upper Matanuska valley in 1953, 1954, and 1957, as part of the U.S. Geological Survey terrain and permafrost investigations in Alaska. Advances and retreats of the glacier, indicated by moraines and marginal channels, were traced. The results are outlined amplifying the preliminary report, No. 56057.

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