LATE HOLOCENE GLACIATION OF

THE WRANGELL MOUNTAINS, ALASKA

(Photo Gallery)

View from the White River Valley south to Mount Churchill in the west St. Elias Mountains.

 

View looking east within the Nikonda Stream valley, a tributary to the Nabesna Glacier valley. The northern Wrangell Mountains as in the background. This active fan is in flood stage after a long day of melting during the Arctic summer.

 

Left. Sarah Skelly ('99) standing on the outer moraine at one of her thesis sites at Nizina Glacier in the Wrangell Mountains. Right. Sarah describing a glaciogenic startigraphic section from the Nikonda Creek Valley at Nabesna Glacier in the northern Wrangell Mountains.

View of the Chitina River looking west.

 

Nizina Little Ice Age moraines, Wrangell Mountains.

Rhizocarpon subgenus Rhizocarpon lichen growing on a boulder from the Kuskulana Glacier forefield. Lichenometry was one of the dating techniques used in the Wrangell Mountain Glacier study.

 

Gordon Jacoby gearing up to core a white spruce at the Miners Road site along the east margin of the Nabesna valley, Wrangell Mountains

Supercub gearing up for take off from the Copper Glacier outwash plain.