Expert Says Glacier Ready to Disintegrate
From Times Wire Reports
Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, which moves into the sea at a rate of up to 110 feet a day, is ready to disintegrate, leaving a spectacular fiord, a researcher said. It should eventually retreat as far as 15 miles up the valley it has carved out to a point equal to sea level, said Tad Pfeffer, a researcher and engineering professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The glacier stretches from the Chugach Mountains into Prince William Sound near Valdez.
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