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Fourpeaked Glacier

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.

See also

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

References

  1. ^ "Fourpeaked Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  2. ^ 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