Quelccaya Ice Cap (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Quelccaya Ice Cap

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A Dartmouth-led team studying Qori Kalis, the largest glacier emerging from Peru's Quelccaya Ice Cap, found that temperature, not snowfall, has been driving the fluctuating size of Quelccaya, the largest ice mass in the tropics.

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