Colorado ‘glacier’ melts away for first time in recorded history
St. Mary’s Glacier, a semi-permanent snowfield near Idaho Springs, Colorado, has melted away for the first time in recorded history. The disappearance follows a winter season with record-low snowpack levels. The site is located at an elevation of approximately 11,236 feet.
Following a winter season that brought many record-setting lows in terms of snowpack, a semi-permanent snowfield in Colorado that’s often misidentified as a glacier has disappeared for what’s believed to be the first time in recorded history. St. Mary’s Glacier, located at about 11,236 feet of elevation outside the city of Idaho Springs and below […]
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