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Author : Faber, T.
Date : 1972
Title : Hydrological study of the Rusty Glacier
Publication : Icefield Ranges Research Project. Scientific Results
Issue : 3:
Page(s) : 83-92
Abstract
The Rusty Glacier is probably in a presurge phase. It and two other glaciers, the trapridge and the backe, occupy a common basin in the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory. Hydrological data from the basin as a whole and from each of the individual glaciers were gathered during the period july 9-august 15, 1968. During this period the total discharge from the basin was 6.9 million cu m. rusty glacier contributed 24% of this discharge; the other two glaciers together contributed 52%; and the ice-free part of the basin contributed 12%. the contribution of the Rusty Glacier to the total discharge is distinctly lower than that of the other glaciers. The low discharge from the rusty glacier is in accordance with the expectation that this glacier will surge. Statistical formulas are given for the relationship of discharge to temperature and to precipitation. The calcium content of both the water and its suspended sediment in the discharge near the exit of the basin is mainly due to the calcium content of the discharge from a Trapridge Glacier stream which flows across moraine containing limestone fragments.
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