Deep enough.The article on waning glaciers This is a list of glaciers. Due to somewhat sparse information, some glaciers, especially those in the tropics, may no longer exist as listed. This is especially true for glaciers in Africa and New Guinea. ("On Thinning Ice," SN: 10/4/03, p. 215) states that a loss of 100,000 cubic kilometers Noun 1. cubic kilometer - a unit of capacity equal to the volume of a cube one kilometer on each edge cubic kilometre metric capacity unit - a capacity unit defined in metric terms of ice would result that in a half-meter rise in sea level. That means that if the 32 million [km.sup.3] polar ice pack melts, sea levels will rise 160 meters. But I have always heard a figure of around 50 feet. Being on a small island in the South Pacific makes the matter less than academic. D. ERIC HANSON, AMERICAN SAMOA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Only legal residents of American Samoa who have graduated high school or obtained a General Equivalency Diploma are admitted to ASCC. History The college was established in 1970 as part of the American Samoa Department of Education in order to provide American Samoa residents , PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA Pago Pago (pronounced /ˈpɑŋo ˈpɑŋo/ by native Samoan-speakers and sometimes /ˈpɑŋgoʊ ˈpɑŋgoʊ/ In fact, researcher Roger B. Barry says that global sea level would rise closer to a quarter of a meter if all the world's glaciers were to melt, and 70 meters (250feet) if Greenland and Antarctica went, too. S. PERKINS |
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