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The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies.The glacier currently loses depth at a rate of about 5 metres (16 ft) per year [2] and has receded more than 1.5 km (0.93 mi) and lost over half of its volume in the past 125 years.
Around 1800, the Athabasca Glacier peaked, ... 100 to 365 metres (328 to 1,198 ft) in depth and receives up to 7 metres (280 in) of snowfall per year. [2]
One of the more accessible in the Canadian Rockies is the Athabasca Glacier, which is an outlet glacier of the 325 km 2 (125 sq mi) Columbia Icefield. The Athabasca Glacier has retreated 1,500 m (4,900 ft) since the late 19th century. Its rate of retreat has increased since 1980, following a period of slow retreat from 1950 to 1980.
Athabasca Glacier. Canada. One of North America’s most-visited glaciers is also one of its most vulnerable. Athabasca, in Alberta’s Jasper National Park, is retreating about 16 feet every year ...
Mount Athabasca is in the Columbia Icefield of Jasper National Park in Canada. The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie , who made the first ascent on August 18 of that year. [ 1 ] Athabasca is the Cree language name for "where there are reeds", which originally referred to Lake Athabasca .
The Athabasca River originates in Jasper National Park, in Lake Providence [7] at the toe of the Columbia Glacier [8] within the Columbia Icefield, between Mount Columbia, Snow Dome, and the Winston Churchill Range, at an elevation of approximately 1,600 metres (5,200 ft).
rock/glacier/snow climb Mount Andromeda is located within the Columbia Icefield on the boundary of Banff and Jasper national parks. The mountain can be seen from the Icefields Parkway (#93) near Sunwapta Pass and is 2.3 km WSW of Mount Athabasca .
They can be up to 10 meters wide and are typically found on ice sheets and flat areas of a glacier in a region of transverse crevasses. Moulins can reach the bottom of the glacier, hundreds of meters deep, [3] [4] [5] or may only reach the depth of common crevasse formation (about 10–40 m) where the stream flows englacially. [6]