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alpine glacier

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alpine glacier [′al‚pīn ′glā·shər]
(hydrology)
A glacier lying on or occupying a depression in mountainous terrain. Also known as mountain glacier.


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The study attributed the most recent spike in the flow of pollutants into Lake Oberaar to the accelerated release of organic chemicals from melting Alpine glaciers, where contaminants were deposited earlier and preserved over decades.
Swiss researchers have found that Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice for decades.
Ongoing melting of alpine glaciers in the Himalayas will devastate the heavily irrigated farmlands of Asia by increasing floods and decreasing longterm water supplies.
 
 
 
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