The demarcation line between glacial meltwater coming from the Glacier Bay region and oceanic water in the Gulf of Alaska. Captions and Photo source: NOAA
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Incessant mountain rain, snow and melting glaciers in a comparatively small region of land that hugs the southern Alaska coast and empties fresh water into the Gulf of Alaska would create the sixth largest coastal river in the world if it emerged as a single stream, a recent study shows.
Freshwater runoff of this magnitude may play important ecological roles…
