Nota preliminare sull’evoluzione del Ghiacciaio Lewis (Monte Kenya, Africa Orientale) fra il 1974 e il 1978. Considerazioni su una nuova carta a grande scala: Preliminar note about the evolution of the Lewis Glacier (Mount Kenya, Eastern Africa) between 1974 and 1978. Remarks on a new map at broad scale

Claudio Smiraglia

Nota preliminare sull’evoluzione del Ghiacciaio Lewis (Monte Kenya, Africa Orientale) fra il 1974 e il 1978. Considerazioni su una nuova carta a grande scala

Preliminar note about the evolution of the Lewis Glacier (Mount Kenya, Eastern Africa) between 1974 and 1978. Remarks on a new map at broad scale

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Claudio Smiraglia Istituto di Geografia dell'Università Cattolica di Milano, Milano, Italy Author

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Glacier, Mount Kenya

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A new map at broad scale of the Lewis Glacier (Mount Kenya, Eastern Africa) has been published by S. HASTENRATH & R. A. CAUKWELL. The map, drawn after an aerial photogrammetric survey in 1978, can be compared to the one HASTENRATH & CAUKWELL already published after an aerial survey of 1974. The author points out that there has been a reduction of the 2% in the area of glacier and shortly examines how this happened. Then he quotes the data HASTENRATH & CAUKWELL, gave, referring to the reduction of thickness (4 m on the average) and of volume (1 200 x 10 3 m³ ) of the glacier.

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Smiraglia, C. (2024). Nota preliminare sull’evoluzione del Ghiacciaio Lewis (Monte Kenya, Africa Orientale) fra il 1974 e il 1978. Considerazioni su una nuova carta a grande scala: Preliminar note about the evolution of the Lewis Glacier (Mount Kenya, Eastern Africa) between 1974 and 1978. Remarks on a new map at broad scale. Geografia Fisica E Dinamica Quaternaria, 5(1), 179-182. https://www.gfdq.glaciologia.it/index.php/GFDQ/article/view/978

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Nota preliminare sull’evoluzione del Ghiacciaio Lewis (Monte Kenya, Africa Orientale) fra il 1974 e il 1978. Considerazioni su una nuova carta a grande scala

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