File:Dog sled team and driver preparing to cross the Nizina River, ca 1912 (THWAITES 366).jpeg
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English: Dog sled team and driver preparing to cross the Nizina River, ca. 1912 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Dog sled team and driver preparing to cross the Nizina River, ca. 1912 |
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English: Caption on image: Crossing Nizina River, Alaska PH Coll 247.879 The Nizina River starts at the base of the Nizina glacier, in a remote corner of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The Nizina River is called a brown water river, so colored because of suspended fine glacial flour. (Fine glacial flour is a very fine sand/rock/dirt composite that is created as glaciers grind over and through mountains. When the glacier melts, the flour is what remains. The water from the melting glacier picks it up. It is so fine and light that it is held suspended in the water, rather than settling out.) The Nizina River starts out as a lake and then flows over a natural dam as it begins its 200-mile trip to the sea. It eventually merges with the Copper River.
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English: United States--Alaska--Nezina River |
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circa 1912 date QS:P571,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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