Crowfoot Glacier
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Crowfoot Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, 32 km (20 miles) northwest of Lake Louise, and can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway.
Crowfoot Glacier is east of the Continental divide, and runoff from the glacier supplies water to the Bow River. The glacier has retreated since the end of the Little ice age and now has lost one entire lobe, no longer resembling the glacier which early explorers named. The glacier was measured to be 1.5 km² (0.58 miles²) in the 1980's and was part of a smaller icefield of 5 km² (1.9 miles²).
[edit] References
- National Geographic.com. Icefields Parkway Drive. Retrieved on 2006-07-03.
- Ommanney, C. Simon L.. Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies (pdf). Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved on 2006-07-04.
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