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CTD said After many years of searching, with better detection equipment, they finally found the airplanes in 1988 three miles from their original location and under approximately 260 feet of ice! They went on to actually recovered one of them (“Glacier Girl” – a P38), which was eventually restored to her former glory.20

What is most interesting about this story, at least for the purposes of this discussion, is the depth at which the planes were found (as well as the speed which the glacier moved). It took only 46 years to bury the planes in over 260 feet (~80 meters) of ice and move then some 3 miles from their original location. This translates into a little over 5 ˝ feet (~1.7 meters) of ice or around 17 feet (~5 meters) of compact snow per year and about 100 meters of movement per year.


That's a really good example of flow by the way. If the plane hadn't been able to flow down as more snow fell, it would have been crushed under the weight of that much ice.

Probably safe to assume little bits of dirt and pollen that were swept along in the wind onto the snow at the same time could be found flowing downward nearby too.

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