
Glacier National Park - Watercolor 05

by AM FineArtPrints
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Glacier National Park - Watercolor 05
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AM FineArtPrints
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Painting - Digital Painting
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Glacier National Park - Watercolor 05 by Andrea Mazzocchetti
Glacier National Park is a United States national park located in Montana, bordering the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. The park contains two mountain ranges, over 130 lakes, over 1,000 species of plants and hundreds of different species of animals. This vast ecosystem covers over 4,000 square kilometers of land and has been defined as the "summa of the continental ecosystem", a region of protected areas of over 44,000 square kilometers.
The national park owes its name to the approximately 150 glaciers inside it at the time of the institution; however, due to the glacier retreat due to global warming, only 37 glaciers remained in 2010, of which only 25 could still be considered active and with an area of at least 10 hectares.
The Glacier National Park is dominated by mountains that were carved deep by the glaciers of the last glaciation, almost completely disappeared over the last 15,000 years.
During the nineteenth century about 150 glaciers were described and cataloged, many of which were also photographed. In the mid-twentieth century, the comparison of these photographs with recent shots made it possible to understand that they had considerably reduced in size, some even had completely dissolved. Below is a photographic evidence of this retreat, based on four successive shots of the Grinnell glacier, performed between 1938 and 2005.
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May 29th, 2018
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