FAST GLACIER
FIVE MILES IN FOUR MONTHS. The reported five-m.ile advance of Black Rapids,' glacier at Fairbanks, Alaska, in the past four months is a world speed record for glacial movement, Professor Ernest N. Patty announces. Professor Patty, former dean of the University of Alaska School of Mines and farmer professor at Washington State College, told interviewrs the Black Rapid’s glacier’s repok/ted movement averages about 227 feet a day. The Muir glacier, on the coast, holds the Alaska record for speed, he said, with a measured movement of seven feet a day, but some glaciers in Greenland have been clocked at 75 feet daily. Naturalists who have studied the Black Rapids glacier, about 127 miles south, said they believe, spring will halt the advance, melting the ice faster than the gigantic pressure from the snow and high in the mountains can press the glacier forward.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 4
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