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Roseg Glacier

Glaciers and Ice Formations

Roseg Glacier, known in Romansh as Vadret da Roseg, is a glacier in the Val Roseg valley in the Bernina Range in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It covered 8.52 square kilometers in 1973 but had shrunk to about 4 kilometers in length by 2005, and its wetland has been registered as a Ramsar site since February 2, 2005, and is monitored as part of Switzerland glacier observation network. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Ramsar Wetland Site 1
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Glaciation, Processes

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Glaciation via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Roseg Glacier

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Glaciology, Disciplines

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Glaciology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Roseg Glacier
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1. Roseg Glacier (Wikipedia)
Category: Ramsar sites in Switzerland
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Wikipedia category: Ramsar sites in Switzerland
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Wikidata: Roseg Glacier
Wikidata Q870347, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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