Glaciological Studies of the Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Arctic, Arctic
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1960
• Subjects: Aerial photography; Boundaries; Cirques; Crevasses; Crystals; Flow; Firn; Formation; Geology; Glaciology; Glaciers; Ice; Impurities; Logistics; Measurement; Nunataks; Size; Velocity; Mendenhall Glacier; Alaska; Taku Glacier; Juneau Icefield; Alaska/British Columbia; Arctic; Taku; Arctic Institute of North America; glacier; glaciers; The Arctic Institute
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66751

In May 1960 a group of Japanese scientists from Hokkaido University, led by Dr. Akira Higashi, left Yokohama for Alaska to conduct a study of the Mendenhall Glacier for a period of 6 weeks. . Objectives of the project were the collecting of large single ice crystals at a lake at the terminus of Mend...