Lamplugh Glacier
Lamplugh Glacier is an Script error: No such module "convert". glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It leads north to its 1961 terminus in Johns Hopkins Inlet, Script error: No such module "convert". west of Ptarmigan Creek and Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Hoonah. The glacier was named by Lawrence Martin of the U.S. Geological Survey around 1912 for English geologist George William Lamplugh (1859–1926), who visited Glacier Bay in 1884.[1][2]
On 28 June 2016, a Script error: No such module "convert". mountainside collapsed onto Lamplugh Glacier, causing a landslide with a volume of between Script error: No such module "convert". that dropped Script error: No such module "convert". of rock and debris onto the glacier. The landslide left a Script error: No such module "convert". long debris field on the glacier's surface.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Orth, Donald. "Lamplugh Glacier" in Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Geological Survey Professional Paper number 567. US GPO, 1967.
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- ↑ 2016 Anonymous, "Lamplugh Glacier Landslide in Glacier Bay National Park" nasa.gov, 17 July 2016, Retrieved 21 June 2020
- ↑ Bessette-Kirton, Erin K.; Coe, Jeffrey A.; Zhou, Wendy "Using Stereo Satellite Imagery to Account for Ablation, Entrainment, and Compaction in Volume Calculations for Rock Avalanches on Glaciers: Application to the 2016 Lamplugh Rock Avalanche in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska" American Geophysical Union, 23 March 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2020. via Wiley Online Library
See also
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