Alaska glaciers

Burt, R. Alexander, E.B. (1996) Soil development on moraines of Mendenhall Glacier, southeast Alaska. 2. Chemical transformations and soil micromorphology. Geoderma 72 19-36... 

Glaciers in Alaska are currently thinning twice as fast as they did from the 1950s to the mid-1990s. 

Chapin F. S., Ill, Walker L. R., Fastie C. L., and Sharman L. C. (1994) Mechanisms of primary succession following deglaciation at Glacier Bay, Alaska. Ecol. Monogr. 64, 149-175. 

Crocker R. L. and Major J. (1955) Soil development in relation to vegetation and surface age at Glacier bay, Alaska. J. Ecol. 43, 427-448. 

C.E. Williamson, O.G. Olson, S.E. Lott, N.D. Walker, D.R. Engstrom, B.R. Hargreaves (2001). Ultraviolet radiation and zooplankton community structure following deglaciation in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Ecology, 82,1748-1760. 

A cold period that lasted from about A.D. 1550 to about A.D. 1850 in Europe, North America, and Asia. This period was marked by rapid expansion of mountain glaciers, especially in the Alps, Norway, Ireland, and Alaska. There were three maxima, beginning about 1650, about 1770, and 1850, each separated by slight warming intervals. 

PoweU, R.D. 1983. Glaciomarine sedimentation processes and Uthofacies of temperate tidewater glaciers in Glacier Bay, Alaska. In Glacial-Marine Sedimentation, Molnia, B.F., ed. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 185-232. 

Glacier melting in Alaska flows into the Mendenhall River. Approximately 50% of the total river discharge in the summer is due to glacier melting (Motyka et al. 2002). 

Motyka, R., O Neel, S., Connor, C., and Echelmeyer, K. (2002) Twentieth century thinning of Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, and its relationship to climate, lake calving, and glacier run-off. Global and Planetary Change, 35 93-112. 

Figure 2.11 is a photograph of a freshly calved iceberg from the South Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm, Alaska. I leave it to the viewer to judge if the intense blue of... 

Sauber JM, Molnia BF (2004) Glacier ice mass fluctuations and fault instability in tectonically active southern Alaska. Global Planet Change 42 279-293... 

Kamb, B., C. F. Raymond, W. D. Harrison, H. Engelhardt, K. A. Echelmeyer, N. Humphrey, M. M. Brugman and T. Pfeffer, 1985. Glacier surge mechanism 1982-1983 surge of Variegated Glacier, Alaska, Science, 227, 469-479. 

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