Double Glacier

Double Glacier
Map showing the location of Double Glacier
Map showing the location of Double Glacier
Double Glacier
LocationKenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, U.S.
Coordinates60°41′18″N 152°31′57″W / 60.68833°N 152.53250°W / 60.68833; -152.53250
Length11 mi (18 km)
Highest elevation3,491 ft (1,064 m)
Map
An image of Double Glacier in Lake Clark National Park
Double Glacier

Double Glacier is an 11 mi (18 km) long glacier in the Kenai Peninsula Borough of Alaska, located 47 mi (76 km) west-northwest of Kenai. As its name suggests, Double Glacier is divided into two lobes.[1]

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.[2]

Double Glacier Volcano[3][4] 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.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Double Glacier
  2. ^ Pelto, Mauri. "professor, dean and a glaciologist". AGU Biospere. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. ^ Pfeiffer, Tom. "Dr". VolcanoDiscovery. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Double Glacier". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
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