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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry201914amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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TGE GLACIERS OF MT. RAINIER 653 Gibraltar Rock. Viewed from the foot of that promontory, the sky Hne of the snow castle fairly bristles with honey- comb spines; while below, in the face of the snow cliff, roughly parallel to repeat its pattern They represent the previous seasons, now many feet of snow, but still traceable by the dust that was imprisoned with them. m dark, wavy lines. the upper surface, in subdued form. hone3combs of buried under tribution of the glaciers on the cone. By far the greater number originate in the vicinity of the 10,000-foot level, while those ice streams which cascade from the summit, such as the Nisqually are in a sense reborn some 4,000 feet lower down. PARADISE GLACIER. A striking example of an ice body nourished wholly by the snows falling on the lower slope of Mount Rainier is
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Photo by Curtis. General View of Paradise Glacier. the ice body originates entirely below the 9,000-foot line. more snow falls at these relatively low levels than on the summit of the peak. It is between the 8,000 and 10,000 foot levels, that one meets with the conditions most favorable for the de- velopment of glaciers. Below this zone the summer heat largely offsets the heavy precipitation, while above it the snowball itself is relatively scant. With- in the belt the annual addition of snow to the ice fields is greater than anywhere else on Mount Rainier. The result is manifest in the arrangement and dis- the Paradise Glacier. In no wise con- nected with the summit neves, it makes its start at an elevation of less tha 9,000 feet. Situated on the spreading slope between the diverging canyons of the Nisqually on the west and of the Cowlitz on the northeast, it constitutes a typical "interglacier," as intermediate ice bodies of this kind are termed. Its appearance is that of a gently un- dulating ice field, crevassed only toward

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