Geologic Publications for Mount Rainier

Tracking extinct glaciers in GLIMS

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Author(s): Bruce H. Raup, Liss M. Andreassen, Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, Mauri S. Pelto, Antoine Rabatel

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Published Year: 2025
Volume: 66
Number: e35
Pages: 6
DOI Identifier: 10.1017/aog.2025.10027
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Keywords: glacier hydrology glacier mass balance glacier mapping glacier monitoring

Abstract:
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS), an initiative to build and distribute a database of global glacier data, has recently begun to track glaciers that have recently disappeared. GLIMS provides a definition of “extinct” glaciers for our community, and the final determination of extinction is left to local experts. There are currently 181 glaciers in the GLIMS Glacier Database that are marked as “extinct”, though we recognize that there have been many more reported in the literature. GLIMS welcomes more submissions to make the list more complete.

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In Text Citation:
Raup and others (2025) or (Raup et al., 2025)

References Citation:
Raup, B.H., L.M. Andreassen, D. Boyer, C. Howe, M.S. Pelto, and A. Rabatel, 2025, Tracking extinct glaciers in GLIMS: Vol. 66, No. e35, 6 p., doi: 10.1017/aog.2025.10027.