Leidy Glacier
| Leidy Glacier | |
|---|---|
| Leidy Gletscher | |
Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay | |
| Status | Retreating[1] |
Leidy Glacier (Danish: Leidy Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.[3]
Geography
The Leidy Glacier discharges from the
Greenland Ice Sheet through the Academy Glacier.[2]
The glacier flows roughly from SE to NW and, after forming an unusual cross pattern, it has its terminus at the head of the Academy Fjord to the northwest and, as the Marie Glacier, at the head of the Olrik Fjord to the southwest.[4][1]
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See also
- List of glaciers in Greenland
- Inglefield Fjord
References
- ^ a b The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
- ^ a b "Leidy Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
- ^ Greenland’s Leidy Glacier; NASA Earth Observatory
External links
- Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat
- This Greenland Glacier Flows Like Water Around Rock - Gizmodo
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