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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.)

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