Middle Cascade Glacier

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Middle Cascade Glacier
( Middle Cascade Glacier )
The Middle Cascade Glacier on Mount Formidable

The Middle Cascade Glacier on Mount Formidable

location Skagit County , Washington , USA
Mountains Cascade chain
Type Kar glacier
length 1.92 km
Coordinates 48 ° 25 '11 "  N , 121 ° 3' 16"  W Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '11 "  N , 121 ° 3' 16"  W.
Middle Cascade Glacier (Washington)
Middle Cascade Glacier
drainage Middle Fork Cascade River
particularities ends in an ice fall; declining
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The Middle Cascade Glacier is located in the Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state north of Spider Mountain and east of Mount Formidable . The Middle Cascade Glacier ends in a remarkable ice fall that tapers and could eventually separate an upper part from a lower part of the glacier. The Middle Cascade Glacier receded 260 meters between 1979 and 2005. The smaller Spider Glacier is located immediately southeast of the Middle Cascade Glacier.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TopoQwest (United States Geological Survey Maps). Cascade Pass, WA [map]. Retrieved May 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ Mauri Pelto: North Cascade Glacier Terminus Behavior . In: North Cascade Glacier Climate Project . Nichols College. Retrieved May 5, 2013.

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