Double Glacier Explained

Double Glacier
Location:Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, U.S.
Coordinates:60.6883°N -152.5325°W
Length:11miles
Elevation Max:3491feet
Map:Alaska
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Double Glacier is an 11miles long glacier in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of Alaska, located 47miles west-northwest of Kenai. As its name suggests, Double Glacier is divided into two lobes.

Double Glacier is the largest glacier contained within Lake Clark National Park with an area of 137 km2 and is in retreat. In the 2009 Redoubt volcano eruption the entire glacier was covered by ash.[1]

Double Glacier Volcano[2] [3] lava dome complex of Pleistocene age forms a nunatak in Double Glacier. K–Ar dating of the complex indicates that it formed 627,000 to 887,000 years ago.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pelto . Mauri . professor, dean and a glaciologist . AGU Biospere . 14 October 2021.
  2. Reed, Lanphere & Miller . Double Glacier Volcano, a 'new' Quaternary volcano in the eastern Aleutian volcanic arc . Bulletin of Volcanology . 1992 . 54 . 8 . 631–637 . October 1992 . 10.1007/BF00430776 . 129371702 . 14 October 2021 . Bulletin of Volcanology.
  3. Web site: Pfeiffer . Tom . Dr. . VolcanoDiscovery . 14 October 2021.
  4. 313800. Double Glacier. 2019-09-06.

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