6o ALASKA GLACIERS was probably stationary and wasting. It was heavily coated with drift, which lay in irregular hummocks. The opposite end was not identified, but may be one of the branches of the stagnant portion of Hubbard Glacier, to be described on another page. Close to the end of Nunatak… … FIG. 31. TIDAL FRONT OF NUNATAK GLACIER. Beyond it, a hanging valley, with a small glacier. The heights are hidden by cloud. Photographed from the southwest, June 21, 1899. That at the north (fig. 31) occupied a trough trending nearly east and west and intersecting the Nunatak at an acute angle. It…
Natural history -- Alaska · Scientific expeditions · Alaska
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