View into the detachment zone (IMAGE)

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View into the detachment zone

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View into the detachment zone: Flat Creek glacier used to occupy the central trough visible in the image. Within just a few years, the surrounding ice flowed into space previously filled by the glacier, masking the full extent of the damage left by the detachments. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

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Photo credit: Mylène Jacquemart.

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