Batura Glacier Terminus, 1984, Karakorum Himalaya
Abstract
Batura Glacier in northwest Karakorum Himalaya has received considerable attention in the past decade became of some unusual characteristics and its effects on the Karakorum Highway between China and Pakistan. Chinese glaciologists found evidence that the Batura terminus would advance in the present decade and reheat in the 1990s. The predicted advance has not begun and instead the frontal ice cliff has down-wasted and the cliff above the main meltwater channel has back-wasted.
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