Nangpai Gosum Glacier Explained

Nangpai Gosum
Map:	Nepal#Tibet
Type:	Valley glacier
Location:	Nepal
Embedded:	Wikidata: yes

Nangpai Gosum Glacier is a glacier located 25 km west northwest of Mount Everest in the Himalayas of Nepal.^[1] It is located at lat 28°02′N., long 86°36′E. The ice-core drilling site is situated at 5,700 m above mean sea level. In 1998, a 37-m ice core was extracted from the glacier by Cameron P. Wake of the University of New Hampshire and transported to the university for analysis.^[2] At the request of the USGS study team, radionuclide analyses were performed for 36Cl and 137Cs on selected sections of the ice core by Hans-Arno Synal at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Glaciers Of Nepal . www.escapehimalaya.com . Escape Himalaya . 19 September 2019.
2. Web site: Glaciers of Asia— THE PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECORD PRESERVED IN MIDDLE LATITUDE, HIGH-MOUNTAIN GLACIERS—AN OVERVIEW OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY EXPERIENCE IN CENTRAL ASIA AND THE UNITED STATES . US Geological Survey (public domain) . 13 May 2012 . L. DeWayne Cecil . David L. Naftz . Paul F. Schuster . David D. Susong . Jaromy R. Green . amp .