Athabasca Glacier Alberta Canada
by Joan Carroll
Title
Athabasca Glacier Alberta Canada
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
Athabasca Glacier, along the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park Alberta Canada, is the most visited glacier in North America. If you look closely, you can see the specially designed snow coaches used to transport visitors over the steep grades, snow and ice of the glacier itself. For a different experience, you can simply walk to the base of the glacier from the various parking lots. Spilling from the Columbia Icefield over three giant bedrock steps, the glacier flows down the valley like a frozen, slow-moving river. Because of a warming climate, the Athabasca Glacier has been receding or melting for the last 125 years. I visited here first in 1980 and the difference from 1980 to 2016 is astounding. Still, the glacier is approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) long, covers an area of 6 sq km (2.3 sq mi), and is measured to be between 90-300 metres (300-980 ft) thick. The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho along with three provincial parks comprise a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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joan carroll, glaciers, Columbia icefield, icefields, ice, snow, canadian, frozen, ecology, columbia, retreat
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