warned the Guardian: “When the climate changes, the landscape takes time to adjust. “If a glacier retreats really quickly it can catch the surrounding slopes by surprise – they might fail catastrophically instead of gradually adjusting.”Land in the area has been recorded moving at a faster rate in the past decade – with satellite images finding discovering a drastic change in the past 10 years since the Barry Arm was found to be moving at the beginning of the 1900s.Fellow geologist Erin Bessette-Kirton has found landslides in Alaska’s St Elias mountains and Glacier Bay correspond with the warmest years.The scientist said: “We have correlations, but we don’t know the driving force.
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