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Tumbling Glacier

Tumbling Glacier is located in the Cumberland Peninsula. It has been formed and shaped within the confines of the Pangnirtung Pass (Figure 1), and extends down into the area of Crater Lake (Davis et al., 1999).

Figure 1: Map showing Crater Lake in Pangnirtung Pass (PP) on Cumberland Peninsula (Davis et al., 1999).

The rapid retreat of Baffin Island ice caps and glaciers that has occurred in the past two decades is consistent with the theory of global warming (Davis et al., 1999). When aerial photographs were taken of the Tumbling Glacier in 1959, it extended into Crater Lake as shown in Figure 2 (Davis et al., 1999). The Tumbling Glacier is traveling through the Pangnirtung Pass, which is the valley that is being carved out by the movement of this ice body (Davis et al., 1999).

Figure 2: Aerial photograph (a) and drawing (b) of the Tumbling Glacier extent in 1959 (Davis et al., 1999).

By 1976, Tumbling Glacier had retreated out of Crater Lake (Figure 3) and up the Pangnirtung Pass, but the glacial debris and floating ice tongue still extended beyond the near vertical snout (Davis et al., 1999). By 1994, the Tumbling Glacier had retreated by another 100 m from its position in 1976 as shown in Figure 3 (Davis et al., 1999).

Figure 3: Photograph of Tumbling Glacier retreat taken in 1994, where the dotted
line is the ice margin in 1976 (Davis et al., 1999).

Figure 4: Tumbling Glacier and Crater lake, picture taken in July 2002 (Nopper, 2003).

LINKS:
C-GIP HOME PAGE
Baffin Island Introduction

Glaciated Peninsulas Include:

Brodeur Peninsula Cumberland Peninsula Hall Peninsula Meta Incognita Peninsula
Ice Caps on Baffin Island Include:
Barnes Ice Cap Grinnell Ice Cap Penny Ice Cap Terra Nivea Ice Cap
Glacial features in Cumberland Peninsula Include:
Boas Glacier Caribou Glacier Coronation Glacier Fork Beard Glacier Highway Glacier
Penny Ice Cap Tumbling Glacier
Glacial features in Hall Peninsula Include:
Grinnell Ice Cap
Glacial features in Meta Incognita Peninsula Include:
Terra Nivea Ice Cap
Additional Links:
Decade Glacier Effects of Climate Change on Baffin References

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			Thread started: Jan 28 2007, 11:44 PM EST Watch Nicely done Caitlin. Very informative. Do you find this valuable? Keyword tags: None Post reply

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