List of glaciers in the United States

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Exit Glacier, Alaska.

This is a list of glaciers existing in the United States, presently or in recent centuries. These glaciers are located in nine states, all in the Rocky Mountains or further west. The southernmost named glacier among them is the Lilliput Glacier in Tulare County, east of the Central Valley of California.

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[edit] Glaciers of Alaska

The Homer Spit is believed to be the remains of a glacial moraine.
Gulkana glacier in the Alaska Range
Matanuska Glacier and peaks of the Chugach Mountains in autumn

[edit] Glaciers of the Pacific Coast Ranges

The Pacific Coast Ranges include glaciers in the three states on the Pacific Coast.

[edit] Washington

Boulder Glacier, Mount Baker

There are hundreds of named glaciers in Washington. This list contains most of the glaciers on the volcanoes, but is very incomplete otherwise.

Olympic Mountains
Mount Olympus
Other peaks
North Cascades (non-volcanoes)[1]
Mount Baker
Glacier Peak
Mount Rainier
Sarvent Glacier, Cowlitz Chimneys.
Goat Rocks
Mount Adams
Mount St. Helens

[edit] Oregon

Wallowa Mountains
Mount Hood[2]
Mount Jefferson
Three Sisters Region
Other Cascade Peaks

[edit] California

Trinity Alps
Mount Shasta
Sierra Nevada

[edit] Glaciers of Nevada (in the Basin and Range Province)

Basin and Range Province lies east of the Coast Ranges and west of the Rockies.

[edit] Glaciers of the Rocky Mountains

[edit] Colorado

See also Glaciers of Colorado.

[edit] Montana

[edit] Wyoming

Gannett Glacier is the largest glacier in the American Rockies and is in the Wind River Range.

[edit] Utah

There are no glaciers in Utah. Timpanogos Glacier article is documentation of a vanished glacier.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Post, A.; D. Richardson, W.V. Tangborn, and F.L. Rosselot (1971). "Inventory of glaciers in the North Cascades, Washington". USGS Prof. Paper 705-A: A1–A26. 
  2. ^ "Mount Hood Glaciers and Glaciations". U.S. Geological Survey. http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Hood/Glaciers/description_hood_glaciers.html. Retrieved 2007-01-15. 
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