{"id":11910,"date":"2021-04-14T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:22:44","slug":"alaska-glacier-begins-to-move-at-an-unexpected-high-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11910","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Glacier Begins to Move at an Unexpected High Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moldo Glacier in Denali National <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/dena\/index.htm\">Park<\/a> in Alaska is moving 50-100 times faster than normal. Last month, a pilot, who was flying over Denali Park, noticed an unusual movement of the mountain and took a picture of the unusual landscapes to send to a geologist friend.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 14, 2021 \u2013 Tourism and Travel<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And the National Park Service confirmed that the glacier is experiencing a so-called glacier increase or eruption. And according to experts, it is not all about climate change. Geological evidence indicates that in the past, a glacier was composed of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/ukraine-news\/the-main-competitor-of-ukrainian-wheat-in-the-main-export-direction\/\">sorghum<\/a> approximately every 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Johnny Kingslake, assistant professor of environmental science at Columbia University, ice eruptions are &#8220;a really strange phenomenon.&#8221; And about 1% of the world&#8217;s glaciers, grouped into certain geographic regions, experience so-called sorghum &#8211; periodic periods when glaciers move much faster than normal (literally a millimeter per day), followed by a rest period.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/ukraine-news\/unexpected-benefits-of-wine-with-cheese\/\">Unexpected Benefits of Wine with Cheese!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moldo Glacier in Denali National Park in Alaska is moving 50-100 times faster than normal. Last month, a pilot, who was flying over Denali Park, noticed an unusual movement of the mountain and took a picture of the unusual landscapes to send to a geologist friend. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 14, 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[5692,5693,5691,1024],"class_list":["post-11910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tourism-and-travel","tag-alaska","tag-moldu-glacier","tag-national-park-service","tag-ukrgate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}