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Petrov Glacier

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Petrov Glacier 

a glacier in the Tien-Shan, in the Kirghiz SSR, in the mountains of Akshiirak. Source of the Kumtor River, the headstream of the Naryn. Covering an area of 73.9 sq km, it is 14.3 km long and 1.8 km wide in the lower part. The glacier is named after the topographer in A. V. Kaul’bars’ expedition of 1869.



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Sergey Erokhin named the following factors that may cause outburst of the lake: intensive growth of the lake in size, intensive melting of the Petrov glacier which falls into the lake, weakened sustainability of the glacial moraine dam of the lake.
The climate warming causes melting of the Petrov glacier, while the square of the Petrov lake is growing.
 
 
 
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