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...scare people to death.” Arnold’s pictures are taken at the same time of year as those taken by Washburn, to emphasize the differences between them. One of the first pictures in Arnold’s presentation was of the Nunatak Glacier, 11,000 feet above sea level, a height at which Arnold said most scientists didn’t expect to see the effect of climate change. The glacier has now almost completely melted. “My expectation from this exhibition is that wherever it goes, fewer and fewer people will doubt...
Last summer the Jirps established their headquarters on a "nunatak," a rocky island in the Taku glacier. The scientists analyzed it for layers of summer pollen grains and proved that they could be used like the growth rings of a tree to measure the age of the ice. They explored the cold depths with drills and with shock waves from explosions. They took samples of wood from ancient trees left behind like exhumed corpses by the huge Mendenhall glacier, in the southeastern part of the field. When the ages of these trees have been measured by the carbon 14 method...
...Society. Airplanes were used for transportation as far as possible into the Yukon territory, but the actual exploration was carried on with dog teams alone. Three mountains, all over 14,000 feet in altitude, were discovered and mapped. The most interesting scientific feature discovered by the party was a nunatak glacier which had retreated over six miles in the past twenty years, an extraordinary rate of movement for any glacier...
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