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| Eleutheros | Air Quality Link | |
Hasn't voted | Hey Jimmy, the Air Quality Visibility Link Is Dead. Thanks, Daniel | |
| Posted Dec 8, 2007 4:17 pm | ||
| saintgrizzly | Lower 48 Glacier Info of Interest | |
Voted 10/10 | Here's a link to current glaciation infomation in the U.S. Lower 48. Wyoming and Montana, of course, top the Rockies in area (actually, have more square kilometers of glaciers than any other state except Washington, which is in a class by itself). Interesting that the Wyoming glacier total is less than 5 square kilometers more than that of Montana—although not all glaciers in those states are in the Wind River Range or GNP. Gannett Glacier, with an area of 3.3 kilometers is currently the largest U.S. Rocky Mountain glacier. I have been unable to locate an accurate glacial area figure isolating a total for either the Winds or GNP. The consensus (which I don't dispute) seems to be that the Winds have more glacier area than GNP, but I've never seen documented sources on such (although the Winds do NOT have more than the rest of the U.S. Rockies combined—that claim should be removed from the body of the page). Also, the rapid melting of GNP's glaciers has been widely discussed and researched for many years; I know the same is occurring in the Winds, but have never seen information as to the rapidity and extent of glacier disappearance from that mountain range. The elevation in the Winds is higher than in GNP, which one would assume to affect the rate of melting. Anyway, I find all this stuff fascinating....Link to Glacier Research | |
| Posted Mar 9, 2009 3:49 pm | ||
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