Abstract
REFERENCES in your recent correspondence to my estimate of the rate of erosion by the Muir Glacier in Alaska, call for a supplementary statement. The estimate was made in 1886 by determining the amount of sediment per gallon brought down by one of the sub-glacial streams, and calculating as best I could the area of the glacial basin, the amount of annual rainfall, and the probable waste by evaporation and by the formation of icebergs. The result obtained was the removal of one-third of an inch of rock per annum over the glaciated area.
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WRIGHT, G. Glacial Erosion in Alaska. Nature 49, 316 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/049316a0
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