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September 14, 2017
Sulztalferner Retreat, Austria Bedrock Expansion Mid-Glacier
Sulztalferner in Landsat images from 1990 and 2017. Red arrow is the 1990 terminus, yellow arrow the 2017 terminus, purple dots the snowline and the green arrow an area of emergent bedrock amidst the glacier. Sulztalferner is a glacier in the Subaier Alps of Austria. The glacier begins at 3200 m below Daunkogel Peak and descends north from the peak. Schlicker (2006) identified that between 1969 and 2003, 14 of the 88 …