How much ice loss is this?
The pie diagrams show how much area was lost by some of the glaciers since the late 1800s. If the glaciers were about 30 m thick (100 ft), then in Canada's Glacier National Park alone the ice lost would have filled a water tower that was at least 5 km tall by 5 km wide! |
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Data sources: Harding (1985), Mount (1995), Hopkinson and Young (1998), McCarthy and Smith (1994), Ebbett (2003) |
