Besh-Köl Glaciers

The Besh-Köl Glaciers are a group of five small cirque glaciers in the upper Chatkal range, in the Chatkal Highlands planning zone of the Autonomous Tribal Regions, above the herders' camp and lakes of Besh-Köl. Together they covered about three square kilometers in 2015.^[1] Their meltwater feeds the Besh-Köl lakes and upper tributaries of the Chatkal. Two of the five have shrunk to small patches of ice since the 1970s.^[2]

References

1. ^ Talas State University, Faculty of Geography (2018). Physical Geography of Irad. Talas: Talas State University Press.
2. ^ Academy of Sciences of the Iradi SSR, Institute of Geology (1978). Geology of the Talas Alatau and Chatkal Ranges. Kobozev.