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Columbia Icefield

Columbia Icefield. What seems an immense stretch of glacial ice is in fact a tiny remnant of the Cordilleran ice sheet that once stretched from the Alberta foothills to the Pacific Coast.

What seems an immense stretch of glacial ice is in fact a tiny remnant of the Cordilleran ice sheet that once stretched from the Alberta foothills to the Pacific Coast.

Photo courtesy of Heartland Associates, Inc.
Photo by Peter St. John and Dennis Pankiw.

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