Northwest History. Alaska, Glaciers. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: glacier; Black Rapids Ice Pack; Fairbanks; Alaska; Ernest N. Patty; geologist; glacial movement; University of Alaska; Washington State college; the Muir glacier; Greenland; snow; icefield; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; glaciers
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92219

Glacier Makes Record. Glacier Makes Record FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 22 — (AP)—Black Rapids glacier's reported five-mile advance in the past four months is a world speed record for glacial movement, said Ernest N. Patty, geologist, here today. Patty, former dean of the University of Alaska school of mines and former professor at Washington State College, told interviewers the Black Rapids glacier's reported movement figures out at about 200 The Muir glacier, on the coast, held the previous Alaska record for speed, he said, with a scientifically measured movement of seven feet a day. However, he said, some glaciers in Greenland have been clocked at seVenty-five Scientists who have studied the Black Rapids glacier, about 130 miles south of here, said they believe that spring will halt the advance, melting the ice faster than the gigantic pressure from snow and ice fields high in the mountains can press the face of the ice wall forward.