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Recent fluctuations of mountain glaciers An engraving made in
1850 shows the Argentiere glacier extending far down the valley in
the French Alps (top). A century later the glacier had retreated far
up the mountainside (bottom). (From E. L. Ladurie, Times of Feast,
Times of Famine: A History of Climate Since the Year 1000 [New York:
Doubleday, 1971] in J. Imbrie and K. P. Imbrie, Ice Ages [Cambridge,
MA, and Springfield, NJ: Harvard University Press and Enslow
Publishers, 1979].)
