Baker Channel , also known as Calen Inlet , is a channel of Chile located in the Tortel , Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region . The Baker River discharges into Martinez Inlet, the northern part of this large estuary. It penetrates the mainland about 75 miles (121 km) and opens into Tarn Bay at the south-east corner of the Gulf of Penas . Merino Jarpa Island lies wholly within this great estuary, while at its mouth lies a group of smaller islands, called Baker Islands , which separate it from Messier Channel . Baker Channel also receives the waters of the O'Higgins/San Martín Lake through the Pascua River . The lake's far-reaching fjord-like arms extend approximately from lat. 49° 11' to 48° 22' S. Its north-west arm is that which drains into the mentioned river.
7-974: The calving front of Jorge Montt Glacier , which is the northern glacier of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field , reaches the Baker Channel. A number of icebergs can be seen in this area. The channel marks the northern border of the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park , and is home to the Katalalixar National Reserve on Merino Jarpa Island. The shores of the channel contain forests of Nothofagus nitida and Pilgerodendron uviferum . These forests are rich in lichens endemic to Chile and nearby areas of Argentina. 47°48′50″S 74°30′30″W / 47.81389°S 74.50833°W / -47.81389; -74.50833 This Aysén Region location article
14-399: A mile in the course of the year." Rivera's study showed the glacier's unique rate of retreat was primarily a function of the fjord's peculiar bathymetry; secondarily a result of a warming climate. In 2010 remnants of nothofagus (southern beech) were discovered and later dated, "yielding burial ages between 460 and 250 cal yrs BP." According to Rivera: "The tree-ring results suggest the area
21-565: A result of rapid thinning. The glacier calves off icebergs into the Baker Channel . In 2000, NASA wrote: Conventional topographic data from the 1970s and 1990s were compared with data from NASA's February 2000 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission to measure changes in the volumes of the 63 largest glaciers in the region over time. The researchers concluded the thinning rate of the Patagonia Icefields more than doubled during
28-499: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jorge Montt Glacier Jorge Montt Glacier is a tidewater glacier located in the Aisén Region of Chile , south of the town of Caleta Tortel . It lies at the north end of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field , within Bernardo O'Higgins National Park . The mouth of Pascua River is located in the vicinity of the glacier calving front. The total drainage area of
35-424: The glacier is about 510 km (200 sq mi). The glacier's ice is thinning most at low elevations, where air temperature is the highest. Ice thinning between 1975 and 2000 averaged 3.3 m (11 ft) per year over the entire glacier, and reached 18 m (59 ft) per year at the lowest elevations. The glacier calving front experienced a major retreat of 8.5 km (5.3 mi) in those 25 years as
42-443: The period from 1995 through 2000 versus the period from 1975 to 2000. In December 2011, a new study was published. "The study was presented by glaciologist and CECs researcher Andrés Rivera, who focused his investigation on changes in the glacier between February 2010 and January 2011. Using a series of 1,445 photos taken throughout this period, scientists found that the glacier shrank roughly 82 feet each day, receding more than half
49-409: Was covered by an old-growth forest dominated by Nothofagus betuloides ("coigue de Magallanes" – Magellanic southern beech) with individuals of average age close to 150 years, co-existing for almost 300 years (total chronology length). The radiocarbon ages of between 250 and 450 years BP from two of the sampled trees suggest that the tree ring samples were taken from a mature forest that was destroyed by
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