Nangpai Gosum Glacier
Glacier in Nepal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nangpai Gosum Glacier is a glacier located 25 km west northwest of Mount Everest in the Himalayas of Nepal.[1] It is located at lat 28°02′N., long 86°36′E. The ice-core drilling site is situated at 5,700 m above mean sea level. In 1998, a 37-m ice core was extracted from the glacier by Cameron P. Wake of the University of New Hampshire and transported to the university for analysis.[2] At the request of the USGS study team, radionuclide analyses were performed for 36Cl and 137Cs on selected sections of the ice core by Hans-Arno Synal at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland.[2]
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Nangpai Gosum | |
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Type | Valley glacier |
Location | Nepal |
Coordinates | 28°2′N 86°36′E |
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