Muir Glacier


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Muir Glacier:

see Glacier Bay National Park and PreserveGlacier Bay National Park and Preserve,
SE Alaska, near Juneau. The park (3,224,840 acres/1,305,603 hectares) and the preserve (58,406 acres/23,646 hectares) were established in 1925 as a national monument and in 1980 designated a national park and preserve.
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Muir Glacier

a glacier in SE Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains, flowing southeast from Mount Fairweather. Area: about 900 sq. km (350 sq. miles)
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Caption: Images of Alaska's Muir Glacier in 1941 and 2004
Darkness falls in the Arctic
Farther north, Muir Glacier in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (right) shrank dramatically in just 15 years.
The melting point: vanishing glaciers, impermanent permafrost, collapsing ice shelves, rising sea levels. Are the latest facts about global warming enough to get the Bush administration's attention? (Global Warming)(Cover Story)
At site 2, next to Muir Glacier, we fished during daylight hours from 1730 to 1930 h.
Prior to sunset juvenile and adult mesopelagic fishes were found at depths of 10 to 15 m near Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay, Alaska.
Turbidity in the upper water layer next to Muir Glacier was higher than anywhere else in this study (15 FTU), and this high turbidity corresponded with the shallowest occurrence of mesopelagic fishes.
Northern lampfish were observed in Icy Strait and Lower Glacier Bay, Alaska, previously, (1) but not as far inland as Muir Glacier.
A nearsurface, daytime occurrence of two mesopelagic fish species (Stenobrachius leucopsarus and Leuroglossus schmidti) in a glacial fjord. (Notes)
These 10 areas are distributed more or less evenly between the 18th century terminal moraine and the tidewater terminus of Muir Glacier and met the following criteria: Each was within 2 km of tidewater and [is less than] 110 m above sea level; the soil parent material of each was glacial till with minor areas of fluvial deposits; and each was a level surface (slope angle [is less than] 10 [degrees]) without major areas of exposed bedrock or continuously saturated soil.
Causes and ecosystem consequences of multiple pathways of primary succession at Glacier Bay, Alaska
Muir Glacier itself is no longer tidewater, but McBride Glacier is.
Alaska on the rocks: by land or by sea, Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve is something to behold

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