Massive amounts of fresh water, glacial melt pouring into Gulf of Alaska

Massive amounts of fresh water, glacial melt pouring into Gulf of Alaska
Corvallis OR (SPX) Mar 23, 2015 - Incessant mountain rain, snow and melting glaciers in a comparatively small region of land that hugs the southern Alaska coast and empties fresh water into the Gulf of Alaska would create the sixth largest coastal river in the world if it emerged as a single stream, a recent study shows. Since it's broken into literally thousands of small drainages pouring off mountains that rise quickly f ... more

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