Fourpeaked_Glacier

Fourpeaked Glacier

Fourpeaked Glacier

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Fourpeaked Glacier is a calving glacier in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska. It is covering much of Fourpeaked Mountain, also known as Fourpeaked Volcano. In the 1950s and up to 1987 Fourpeaked Glacier experienced a dramatic recession which followed by a period of relative stability of it terminus between 1987 and 2000.[3]

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Headwall of Fourpeaked Glacier with steam and volcanic gases rising through vents on Sept. 20, 2006

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  1. [1]
    "Fourpeaked Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
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    "Fourpeaked Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  3. [3]
    Giffen, B.A., Hall, D.K., Chien, J.Y. (2014). Alaska: Glaciers of Kenai Fjords National Park and Katmai National Park and Preserve. In: Kargel, J., Leonard, G., Bishop, M., Kääb, A., Raup, B. (eds) Global Land Ice Measurements from Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79818-7_11 ISBN 978-3-540-79818-7, ISBN 978-3-540-79817-0


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