DENALI NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA

The National Park Service, Photographer: P. Brease. Description: In this photo (taken just downstream from the terminus of Peters Glacier) eskers, recessional moraines, outwash braiding, and other periglacial landforms are in evidence. Glacier ice retreated from this area only a few hundred years ago leaving these relatively fresh examples of periglacial, or "near glacial", geomorphology.


© 2001
David J. Leveson