Glaciers of South America --

GLACIERS OF CHILE AND ARGENTINA

By LOUIS LLIBOUTRY

INTRODUCTION
By LOUIS LLIBOUTRY

GLACIERS OF THE DRY ANDES
By LOUIS LLIBOUTRY

With a section on
ROCK GLACIERS
By ARTURO E. CORTE

GLACIERS OF THE WET ANDES
By LOUIS LLIBOUTRY

SATELLITE IMAGE ATLAS OF GLACIERS OF THE WORLD

Edited by RICHARD S. WILLIAMS, Jr., and JANE G. FERRIGNO

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1386-I-6

Numerous glaciers are found along the more than 4,000-km length of the Andes Mountains and range in size from very small snow patches and glacierets in northern Chile to the 13,000-km² Southern Patagonian Ice Field in Chile and Argentina, the largest glacier outside Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere. The ice fields and glaciers of Patagonia are akin to those of southern Alaska. The 2,200 km² of glaciers in the Central Andes between Santiago and Mendoza are unique