Late Wisconsin and Recent History of the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska

Authors

  • John R. Williams
  • Oscar J. Ferrians, Jr.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3664

Keywords:

Animal food, Biological sampling, Cannibalism, Ground squirrels, Internal organs, Lemmings, Polar bears, Predation, Seals (Animals), Trichinella, Walruses

Abstract

Reports studies of this glacier in the upper Matanuska valley in 1953, 1954, and 1957, as part of the U.S. Geological Survey terrain and permafrost investigations in Alaska. Advances and retreats of the glacier, indicated by moraines and marginal channels, were traced. The results are outlined amplifying the preliminary report, No. 56057.

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Published

1961-01-01

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (1961): June: 81–144

Section

Articles