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Cryosphere Note 8 - Figure 2A

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Figure 8-2a.–Two views of the receding margin of the Quelccaya ice cap, Perú’s largest glacier and the Earth’s largest tropical ice cap. The margin of the ice cap was photographed from the same camera station in 1977. Photographs by Lonnie G. Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Figure 8–2A. Two views of the receding margin of the Quelccaya ice cap, Perú’s largest glacier and the Earth’s largest tropical ice cap. The margin of the ice cap was photographed from the same camera station in 1977. Photographs by Lonnie G. Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.



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