Lowell Glacier
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| location | Yukon (Canada) | |
| Mountains | Elias chain | |
| Type | Outlet glacier | |
| length | 60 km | |
| Exposure | east | |
| Altitude range | 2600 m - 480 m | |
| width | ⌀ 3.4 km | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 18 ′ N , 138 ° 19 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lowell Lake → Alsek River | |
| particularities | Glacier edge lake | |
 Glacier tongue of the Lowell Glacier |
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The Lowell Glacier is an approximately 60 km long outlet glacier of the Kluane Icefield in the east of the Elias chain in the Canadian Yukon Territory .
Located in the Kluane National Park , the glacier flows in the lower section in an easterly direction and has a width of 3.4 km there. It ends at a height of 480 m on Lowell Lake , which is traversed by the Alsek River in a southerly direction.
The glacier has advanced at least five times as far as Goatherd Mountain in the last 3000 years , so that it blocked the outflow of the Alsek River and thereby formed a large reservoir upstream. This phenomenon is known as the “ Neoglacial Alseksee ”. Each time the natural dam ruptured and the reservoir suddenly emptied with a flash flood in the downstream area. The last time this happened around 1850 at the end of the Little Ice Age .
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Alexandre Bevington, Luke Copland: Characteristics of the last five surges of Lowell Glacier, Yukon, Canada, since 1948 . Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 60, No. 219, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Glaciers . Yukon Government, Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources. Retrieved November 1, 2017.