CONTENTS

Abstract

Occurrence and Distribution of Glaciers in Bolivia

Figure 1. Sketch map of the glacierized areas of Bolivia showing location of glaciers and distribution and amount of precipitation

Figure 2. Annotated Landsat 1 MSS image and Landsat 5 TM false-color composite image of three glacier complexes in the central Cordillera Occidental of Bolivia and Chile

Figure 3. Annotated terrestrial photograph of the Nevados Payachata of the Cordillera Occidental

Figure 4. Sketch map of the glacierized areas of the Cordillera Apolobamba in the Cordillera Oriental of Perú and Bolivia

Figure 5. Landsat 2 MSS image and Landsat 5 TM false-color composite image of the Cordillera Apolobamba in Perú and Bolivia

Figure 6. Sketch map showing glacier distribution in the Cordillera Real

Figure 7. Annotated Landsat 2 MSS image and Landsat 5 TM false-color composite image of the glacierized regions of the Cordillera Tres Cruces and Nevado Santa Vera Cruz

Figure 8. Annotated Landsat 2 MSS image mosaic of glacierized regions of the Cordilleras Apolobamba, Real, and Tres Cruces, and of Nevado Santa Vera Cruz of the Cordillera Oriental of Bolivia

Figure 9. Enlarged part of a Landsat 2 MSS false-color composite image showing traces of Pleistocene glaciation in the Cerro Potosí in the southeastern Bolivia highlands

Figure 10. Annotated terrestrial photograph of Nevado Huayna Potosí in the northern Cordillera Real

Table 1. Glaciers of the Bolivian Andes on 1 November 1984

Climate and Glaciers in Bolivia: The Special Mass-Balance Situation

Figure 11. Annotated vertical aerial photograph of the southern part of Cordillera Tres Cruces

Figure 12. Ground photograph of the northeast-facing escarpment of the southern Cordillera Tres Cruces

Figure 13. Ground telephotograph of the southwest-facing escarpment of the southern Cordillera Tres Cruces

Figure 14. Ground photograph of ice penitents on the Glaciar Laramcota, western slope of the Cordillera Tres Cruces

Figure 15. Annotated ground photograph of the Cerro Tapaquilcha in the southern Cordillera Occidental

Observation and Mapping of Glaciers

Figure 16. Index of aerial photographs and topographic maps of the glacierized regions of Bolivia

Glacier Imagery

Aerial Photographs

Satellite Photographs and Images

Figure 17. Annotated oblique satellite photograph taken from the Gemini 9 spacecraft looking west at the glacierized Cordillera Oriental

Figure 18. Index map to the optimum Landsat 1, 2, and 3 images of the glaciers of Bolivia

Table 2. Optimum Landsat 1, 2, and 3 images of the glaciers of Bolivia

Capabilities and Limitations of Interpreting Glaciological Phenomena from Satellite Images of Bolivia's Semitropical Glaciers

Figure 19. Annotated Landsat 1 MSS false-color composite image of the Cordillera Occidental in southern Bolivia and northeastern Chile

Figure 20. Parts of six Landsat 2 MSS images showing the seasonal cycle of snow and firn fields in the Cordillera de Lípez

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