Vanishment of very small glacierets throughout the Northern and Central Andes of Chile

Small glaciers (<0.5 km 2 ), glacierets (<0.25 km 2 ), and, in particular, very small glacierets (<0.01 km 2 ), despite being numerous in mountain environments, are underrepresented in scientific inquiry when assessing their response to climate change.We present new insights into the vanishment (no visible surface ice whilst underlain by bedrock or water) of 77 very small glacierets distributed in the Northern and Central Andes of Chile.We also analyse the presumable vanishment (no visible surface ice whilst underlain by regolith) of 244 additional very small glacierets, comprising a total dataset of 321 very small glacierets within the study