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  2. Category:Glaciers of California - Wikipedia

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    Glaciers in California. For convenience, all glaciers in California should be included in this category. This includes all the glaciers that can also be found in the subcategories.

  3. Conness Glacier - Wikipedia

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    The Conness Glacier is on the steep northeast cirque of Mount Conness, east of the Sierra Nevada crest, in the U.S. state of California. [2] The glacier is situated at about 11,548 feet (3,520 m). [1] and can be seen from Saddlebag Lake to the east. The glacier is the largest glacier in the Sierra Nevada north of Tioga Pass or Highway 120.

  4. Palisade Glacier - Wikipedia

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    The Palisade Glacier is a glacier located on the northeast side of the Palisades within the John Muir Wilderness in the central Sierra Nevada of California. [2] The glacier descends from the flanks of four fourteeners, or mountain peaks over 14,000 ft (4,300 m) in elevation, including North Palisade (14,242 ft (4,341 m)), the highest peak of the Palisades group and the third highest peak in ...

  5. Geology and geological history of California - Wikipedia

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    The oldest rocks in California date back 1.8 billion years to the Proterozoic and are found in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Mojave Desert.The rocks of eastern California formed a shallow continental shelf, with massive deposition of limestone during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse ...

  6. Geography of California - Wikipedia

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    Map of California topography and geomorphic provinces California's major mountain ranges. California is a U.S. state on the western coast of North America. Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2), California is among the most geographically diverse states.

  7. Trinity Alps - Wikipedia

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    The Grizzly Glacier below the north face of Thompson Peak. Research had shown that some glaciers in the Trinity Alps were more resistant to the effects of global warming than are other California glaciers. According to recent, but incorrect, USGS maps, 35 permanent bodies of snow and several tiny glaciers dotted the highest peaks of the Alps. [3]

  8. Category:Glaciers of California by county - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Glaciers of California. It includes Glaciers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories

  9. Whitney Glacier - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] The Whitney Glacier is the longest glacier and the only valley glacier in California. In area and volume, it ranks second in the state behind the nearby Hotlum Glacier . In 1986, the glacier was measured to be 126 ft (38 m) deep and over three km in length. [ 4 ]

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