Figure 1. Index map showing the location of glaciers in Colombia
Present Snowfields and Glacier Distribution
Table 1. Estimate of the glaciated areas in the Colombian and Ecuadorean Andes during the last ("Fuquene") glaciation
Table 2. Glaciers of Colombia
Table 3. Glaciers and snowfields of Colombia measured from Landsat images
Figure 2. Sketch map showing the extent of the glacierized area on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in 1940
Figure 3. Sketch map showing the extent of the glacierized area on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in 1969
Figure 4. Sketch map and enlargement of a Landsat 1 MSS image of the glaciers and snowfields of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Figure 5. Oblique aerial photograph of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Figure 6. Sketch map of the glacierized area on the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy drawn from 1955 aerial photography
Figure 7. Sketch map and enlargement of a Landsat 1 MSS image of the glaciers and snowfields of the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy
Figure 8. Sketch map and enlargement of a Landsat 2 MSS false-color composite image of the glaciers and snowfields of the Ruiz-Tolima volcanic massif
Figure 9. Oblique aerial photograph of the Ruiz-Tolima glacio-volcanic complex
Figure 10. Nineteenth-century paintings of the Ruiz-Tolima volcano complex by E. Mark
Figure 11. Oblique aerial photograph of the Ruiz-Tolima massif
Figure 12. Effect of the November 1985 volcanic eruption on the Nevado del Ruiz ice cap
Figure 13. Oblique aerial photograph of the Nevado del Tolima and Nevado de Santa Isabel
Figure 14. Oblique aerial photograph of the Nevado del Huila
Figure 15. Sketch map and enlargement of a Landsat 2 MSS false-color composite image of the glaciers and snowfields of the Nevado del Huila
Maps and Aerial Photographs of the Glaciers of Colombia
Table 4. Maps covering the glacierized areas of Colombia
Table 5. Aerial photographic coverage of the glacerized areas of Colombia
Figure 16. Index map to the optimum Landsat 1, 2, and 3 images of the glaciers of Colombia
Table 6. Optimum Landsat 1, 2, and 3 images of the glaciers of Colombia
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