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MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [ 1 ] MapQuest's competitors include Apple Maps , Here , and Google Maps .
MapQuest offers online, mobile, business and developer solutions that help people discover and explore where they would like to go, how to get there and what to do along the way and at your destination.
The Glacier Ridge Trail is a 14.8-mile-long (23.8 km) hiking trail in western Pennsylvania. The trail extends from Moraine State Park to Jennings Environmental Education Center . [ 1 ] As its name implies, the trail largely follows a ridgeline and associated features formed by glaciers during the Last Glacial Period .
Hornbreen ("Horn glacier") lies between Torell Land and Sørkapp Land on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The glacier debouches into Hornsund. Former names of the glacier include Ramme Gletscher and Horn Glacier. Hornbreen has a length of about 15 km, and width of 8 km. [1] [2]
The peak of a glacial horn will often outlast the arêtes on its flanks. [1] As the rock around it erodes, the horn gains in prominence. Eventually, a glacial horn will have near vertical faces on all sides. [citation needed] In the Alps, "horn" is also the name of very exposed peaks with slope inclinations of 45-60° (e.g. Kitzbüheler Horn).
Portal Peak is situated 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the crest of the Cascade Range in the Glacier Peak Wilderness on land managed by Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. It is part of the North Cascades. [2] Portal Peak is located immediately northwest of Red Pass, and 1.36 mi (2.19 km) west-northwest of line parent White Mountain. [3]
Haugerud, Ralph (2008), Nearshore surveys with LIDAR (PDF), United States Geological Survey – via Washington Department of Ecology; Tucker, Dave (February 11, 2010), "Whidbey Island erratics", Northwest Geology Field Trips; Tucker, Dave (July 2010), "Whidbey Island glacial deposits", Northwest Geology Field Trips
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