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Research straightens out what caused the arc

That helped build the coastal mountains of today''s Alaska and British Columbia. The combination of the northern fault action and the southern land accretion instigated the

2025 Aug 22

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A wrinkle beneath the icy face of Alaska | Geophysical Institute

A few days ago, the forces beneath Alaska rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier.

2024 Sep 30

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Alaska Glaciers Show Dramatic Melting

Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound and Bering Glacier in the St. Elias Mountains are two glaciers losing ice at an alarming rate: during the past decade, Columbia

2024 Jun 15

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The Shuttle Red Aurora | Geophysical Institute

By glowing red on Sunday night, April 12, 1981, the heavens over the United States displayed their pleasure with the successful flight of the shuttle Columbia. Perhaps because

2024 Sep 04

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A guide to the Alaska that was (is) | Geophysical Institute

The road then ended a few hundred miles short of Alaska, in Hazelton, British Columbia. A historical novelist and fiction writer, Colby filled 500 pages of A Guide to Alaska

2024 Nov 01

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Alaska glaciers help drive rise in sea level | Geophysical Institute

Many glaciers smaller than about five square kilometers — like those in the European Alps, New Zealand, Scandinavia and Glacier National Park in Montana — will

2025 Jun 24

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Ranking Rivers | Geophysical Institute

For comparison, that''s right ahead of the Columbia in area drained and right after it in discharge. (The Columbia River also needs Canada to gain its rank; its source is in British

2025 Jul 30

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The Columbia Glacier | Geophysical Institute

The Columbia Glacier is one of Alaska''s better known tidewater glaciers, both from the standpoint of tourist attraction and the model it provides for scientific investigation. In 1973

2024 Jun 14

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The Alaska-Canada Boundary | Geophysical Institute

The Alaska-Canada boundary was originally established in February 1825 by Russia (then owner of Alaska) and Great Britain (then owner of Canada).

2026 Jan 16

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Columbia Glacier Retreating

Columbia Glacier, located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Valdez near the epicenter of the great 1964 earthquake, is rapidly losing its battle for survival. It is the last of

2025 Sep 02

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