Muir Glacier
Americannoun
noun
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The Muir Glacier has now retreated more than 30 miles from the sea up into the mountains.
From Scientific American • Nov. 18, 2019
We motored slowly past a chunk of rock swarming with bald eagles on top and sea lions below, and approached the spot that, in the 1890s, had marked the terminus of Muir Glacier.
From New York Times • May 21, 2018
At Port Townsend I met Mr. Loomis, who had agreed to go with me as far as the Muir Glacier.
From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John
Present-day glaciers, like the Muir Glacier in Alaska, can be seen transporting boulders and drift just as this great prehistoric ice-sheet must have done.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Front of Muir Glacier, showing ice entering the sea; also small icebergs.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
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