It is the last of alaska's 52 tidewater glaciers to begin its epic retreat from the sea Many glaciers smaller than about five square kilometers — like those in the european alps, new zealand, scandinavia and glacier national park in montana — will disappear by the end of this century, said radic, a researcher at the university of british columbia and former graduate student at the geophysical institute. The columbia glacier is one of alaska's better known tidewater glaciers, both from the standpoint of tourist attraction and the model it provides for scientific investigation
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In 1973 it became the object of close scientific scrutiny
In alaska, some 50 to 60 glaciers calve into the sea, but exhibit such diversified behavior that they have baffled glaciologists for decades
By glowing red on sunday night, april 12, 1981, the heavens over the united states displayed their pleasure with the successful flight of the shuttle columbia Perhaps because columbia was up that night, more americans than usual looked up at the sky and saw the red aurora that covered much of the nation, even as far south as texas. Alaska is more than twice the size of the largest of the lower 48 states, and the amount of alaska underlain by permafrost is equal to the size of three californias Ten states are smaller than the area covered by glaciers in alaska
Southern worms live in the british columbia coast range, the cascades of washington and oregon and the olympic mountains of western washington The southern worms are longer than their northern cousins and resemble black hairs. For comparison, that's right ahead of the columbia in area drained and right after it in discharge (the columbia river also needs canada to gain its rank
Its source is in british columbia.) two yukon tributaries also make the list
The porcupine ranks 20th in drainage area, and the tanana is number 16 for average discharge.
