By CARLOS SCHUBERT
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-1
Venezuela has five cirque glaciers that have a total area of 2 square kilometers and are situated on three separate mountain peaks in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida. A rapid loss of glacier ice has taken place during the last century, a process that has accelerated since 1972
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U.S. Geological Survey, U.S.Department of the Interior