Northwest History. Alaska, Glaciers. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Washington; Alaska's great glaciers; geologists; R. H. Sergeant; Alaskan Geological Survey; Black Rapids Glacier; Mount Hayes; S. R. Capps; Thomas Riggs; International Boundary Commission; the Pacific Ocean; Glacier Bay; Juneau; glacier shrink; Alaskan-Canadian boundary; seaport; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Alaska; Canada; Delta River; Hayes; Pacific; glacier; glacier*; glaciers
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92217

Alaska's Great Glaciers Shrink. ALASKA'S GREAT GLACIERS SHRINK. WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 22.—UP)—Alaska's great glaciers— huge rivers of ice — are shrinking slowly, government geologists said today, but it probably will be thousands of years before they disappear. R. H. Sergeant, head...