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Article: Small Glaciers in Northern California Buck Global Warming Trend.
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- May 5, 2005
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Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- While glaciers around the world are shrinking and disappearing, presumably due to global warming, two small glaciers in the Trinity Alps of Northern California are holding their own.
Richard Heermance, a doctoral student in geological sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented findings of his research on the glaciers at the western meeting of the Geological Society of America in San Jose last weekend.
Heermance first became familiar with the Trinity Alps in the Klamath Mountain Range while visiting there with his family when ...