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A Visitor's Guide to Mount Rainier Glaciers
-- Carolyn L. Driedger, 1986,
A Visitor's Guide to Mount Rainier Glaciers:
Pacific Northwest National Parks and Forests Association, 80p.
Table of Contents
- Section 1 -- Glacial Processes and History
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Introduction
- The stage is set
- Snow accumulation and ablation
- Snow is recast in the role of ice
- Glacier mass balance
- Glacier flow
- Local glacial geology
- Effects of climatic change
- Some glaciological studies on the mountain
- Geologic hazards
- Section II -- Description of Individual Glaciers
- Nisqually Glacier
- Kautz Glacier
- South Tahoma and Tahoma Glaciers
- Puyallup Glacier
- North Mowich Glacier
- Carbon Glacier
- Winthrop Glacier
- Emmons Glacier
- Cowlitz and Ingraham Glaciers
- Paradise Glacier
- The Summit Crater
- Epilogue
- Section I footnotes
- Section II footnotes
- Glossary
- Conversion Factors
- References
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