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Valdez Glacier in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska. Over the past century, this glacier has thinned 90 meters and the unvegetated areas along the glacial margins have been exposed by the thinning and retreating glacier during the last 2 decades of the 20th century. [1]

Source: http://www.usgs.gov/features/glaciers2.html.

Photograph by Bruce F. Molnia.

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