Peyto glacier
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| location | Alberta (Canada) | |
| Mountains | Canadian Rockies | |
| Type | Outlet glacier | |
| length | 2.7 km | |
| Exposure | North northeast | |
| Altitude range | 2600 m - 2100 m | |
| width | ⌀ 0.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 41 '0 " N , 116 ° 32' 0" W | |
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| drainage | Peyto Lake → Mistaya River | |
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The Peyto Glacier is in Banff National Park in the Canadian province of Alberta situated glacier .
The Peyto Glacier forms an outlet glacier from the Wapta ice field . It stretches between 2100 m and 2600 m above sea level. The glacier was first photographed in 1896 by Walter Dwight Wilcox , a photographer and explorer. This documents the retreat of the glacier over a long period of time: since 1896 the glacier has lost around 70% of its volume. It probably reached its greatest extent in the Holocene between 1836 and 1846.
Silt from the meltwater of the glacier is the cause of the turquoise color of Peyto Lake .
literature
- MN Demuth, DS Munro and GJ Young (Eds.) Peyto Glacier - One Century of Science , National Hydrology Research Institute Science Report 8: 83-132., Online
Web links
Commons : Peyto Glacier - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
