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  2. Cordilleran ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    The ice sheet faded north of the Alaska Range because the climate was too dry to form glaciers. [ citation needed ] The ice sheet covered up to 1,500,000 km 2 (580,000 sq mi) at the Last Glacial Maximum [ 2 ] and probably more than that in some previous periods, when it may have extended into the northeast extremity of Oregon and the Salmon ...

  3. Ice field - Wikipedia

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    An ice field (also spelled icefield) is a mass of interconnected valley glaciers (also called mountain glaciers or alpine glaciers) on a mountain mass with protruding rock ridges or summits. [1] They are often found in the colder climates and higher altitudes of the world where there is sufficient precipitation for them to form.

  4. List of glaciers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Exit Glacier, Alaska. Glaciers are located in ten states, with the vast majority in Alaska. [1] The southernmost named glacier is the Lilliput Glacier in Tulare County, east of the Central Valley of California.

  5. Bering Glacier - Wikipedia

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    Bering Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It currently terminates in Vitus Lake south of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park , about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the Gulf of Alaska . Combined with the Bagley Icefield , where the snow that feeds the glacier accumulates, the Bering is the largest glacier in North America .

  6. USGS Historical Topographic Maps for the Juneau Icefield area

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    The Juneau Icefield is a geological icefield located just north and east of Juneau, Alaska and continues north to the Skagway, Alaska area. Current research of Climate Change in the field of Glaciology relies upon comparison of historical glacier mass-balance to current conditions.

  7. Bagley Icefield - Wikipedia

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    The Bagley Icefield (also called Bagley Ice Valley) in southeastern Alaska is the second largest nonpolar icefield in North America.It was named after James W. Bagley, a USGS topographic engineer who developed the Bagley T-3 camera and mapped Alaska prior to World War I. [1]

  8. Glacier morphology - Wikipedia

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    Elephant Foot Glacier, a well-known Piedmont glacier in Romer Lake, northeastern Greenland. [19] Piedmont glaciers are a sub-type of valley glaciers which have flowed out onto lowland plains, where they spread out into a fan-like shape. [12] [16] Examples include: Malaspina Glacier, Alaska, United States; Endeavor Piedmont Glacier, Antarctica

  9. Category:Glaciers of Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "Glaciers of Alaska" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of ...