Looking South across the Bagley Ice Field (IMAGE)

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Looking South across the Bagley Ice Field

Caption

This ice field is believed to cover a large fault (Bagley fault), discovered by the STEEP project, which is thought to have become highly active in response to accelerated glacial erosion in the last million years. Resulting from differential rock motion across this structure, the large mountain in the background is moving up relative to the hill beneath the helicopter at about 10,000 (+/- 3,000) feet per million years.

Credit

Photograph taken by Aaron L. Berger in 2006

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with coverage of research by STEEP, Aaron Berger, and/or James Spotila

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