!!!Pasterze

Pasterze Glacier, valley glacier in the Grossglockner Mountains, 
largest glacier in Austria, nature reserve, stretches from the 
firnfield of the Johannisberg mountain (alt. 3,460 m) to the 
south east. It reached its glacial maximum in 1856, but since then its 
length and thickness have been decreasing. Strata are Pasterze bed 
(Boden), Upper, Middle and Lower Pasterze glacier. The glacier grows 
from neve basins in the Pasterze bed (Boden). The crevasse of the ice 
fall is quite steep and thick where it meets the Middle Pasterze 
stratum, the zone of glacier ablation. The Glocknerstrasse road leads 
to the Pasterze glacier.


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