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April 13, 2021

Benito Glacier, Chile 2021 Calving Event Drives Further Retreat

  Benito Glacier in 2000 and 2021 Landsat images. Locations 1-6 are current or former distributary terminus locations. Red arrow is the 2000 terminus location and yellow arrow the 2021 terminus location.  A small cloud is obscuring an iceberg near terminus.  Purple dots are the snowline. Benito Glacier is a temperate outlet glacier on the west side of the North Patagonian Icefield terminating in an expanding lake. The glacier is …

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April 28, 2017

Benito Glacier, Chile Retreats 2km 1987-2015

Benito Glacier comparison in 1987 and 2015 indicating the terminus position in 1987 red arrows, yellow arrows the 2015 terminus positions, purple arrows where glacier thinning is expanding bedrock areas, the snowline is indicated by purple dots.  Glacier Benito is a temperate outlet glacier on the west side of the North Patagonian Icefield the glacier is south of  Fraenkel Glacier and north of Acodado Glacier. Loriaux and Casassa (2013) examined the expansion of lakes …

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