Sowers glacier
| Sowers glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 37 ′ S , 84 ° 59 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Thomas Glacier | |
The Sowers Glacier is a glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows from a prominent basin on the eastern slope of Mount Craddock between the Willis Ridge and Mount Osborne ridge in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains through to the Thomas Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2006 after the US climate researcher Todd A. Sowers from Pennsylvania State University , who carried out studies on climatic changes in Antarctica using ice cores between 1991 and 2006.
Web links
- Sowers Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sowers Glacier on geographic.org (English)