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Glacier Retreat, the Little Ice Age and Climate Change

By Glaciers, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, The Unexpected, Truthout.org
Cover Description: The Kennicott Glacier, Wrangle St. Elias National Park and Preserve, southeast Alaska. The broad and undulating gravel bed that stretches across the valley floor is actually the four mile-wide Kennicott Glacier, a dirt glacier as John Muir labelled such in southeast Alaska in 1879. The gravel layer rides atop the glacier from rockfalls...
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