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ice. Just west of the Hayden the great Marvine glacier 

 descends from the mountains and supplies the ice which 

 forms the eastermost of the four lobes of Malaspina glacier. 

 The low ice cliff of this glacier lies just back of the west 

 coast of Yakutat bay, extending from near Point Manby to 

 the Kwik river, and being separated from the sea by a 

 fringe of alluvial fans across which flow many large, swift, 

 glacial streams. The Marvine lobe of the Malaspina 

 glacier is of distinct present interest because of a change 



Excursion C 8. 



Three of the largest ice tongues of the Swiss Alps superposed on the same scale 

 over Hubbard glacier. 



from stagnation to activity between 1905 and 1906. The 

 other three lobes of Malaspina glacier, called Seward, 

 Agassiz, and Guyot, are fed by valley glaciers of the same 

 names. 



East of the Malaspina glacier, and between it and 

 Yakutat bay, are three glaciers which extend beyond their 



