Table 1.9Glacier area and volume, North Saskatchewan and South Saskatchewan river basins

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Glacier area and volume, North Saskatchewan and South Saskatchewan river basins
  Total glacier area Total glacier volume
1975 1998 Percentage change  1976 1998 Percentage change
  km 2 percent km 3 percent
North Saskatchewan 1 393 306 -22 25.87 21.54 -17
South Saskatchewan 138 88.4 -36 5.21 3.24 -38
1.
Not including Brazeau.
Source(s):
Demuth, M.N., V. Pinard, A. Pietroniro, B.H. Luckman, C. Hopkinson, P. Dornes and L. Comeau, 2008. Recent and past-century variations in the glacier resources of the Canadian Rocky Mountains – Nelson River System. Terra Glacialis 11 (248): 27-52.
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