GLACIERS OF SOUTH AMERICA --

I-1. GLACIERS OF VENEZUELA

By CARLOS SCHUBERT

I-2. GLACIERS OF COLOMBIA

By FABIAN HOYOS-PATIÑO

I-3. GLACIERS OF ECUADOR

By EKKEHARD JORDAN and STEFAN L. HASTENRATH

I-4. GLACIERS OF PERÚ

By BENJAMÍN MORALES-ARNAO

With sections on the CORDILLERA BLANCA ON LANDSAT IMAGERY and QUELCCAYA ICE CAP

By STEFAN L. HASTENRATH

I-5. GLACIERS OF BOLIVIA

By EKKEHARD JORDAN

I-6. GLACIERS OF CHILE AND ARGENTINA

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

Landsat images, together with aerial photographs and maps where available, have been used to produce glacier inventories, define glacier locations, support on-going field studies of glacier dynamics, and monitor the extensive glacier recession that has taken place and is continuing in many parts of South America

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1999

Cover: Landsat false-color image of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, a heavily glacierized segment of the Andes Mountains that extends from about latitude 48°15'S. to about latitude 51°30'S. along the border between Chile and Argentina. (Landsat image 2399-13410; 25 February 1976; Path 248, Row 94 from the EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, S. Dak.)