The Salamander Glacier is in
Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
. The glacier lies on a shelf on the east side of the
arête
An arête ( ) is a narrow ridge of rock which separates two valleys. It is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys. Arêtes can also form when two glacial cirques erode headwards towards one another, although frequ ...
which is part of the
Continental Divide, at an average elevation of above sea level.
The Salamander Glacier covered an area of approximately as of 1993. Before
Grinnell Glacier
Grinnell Glacier is in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is named for George Bird Grinnell, an early American conservationist and explorer, who was also a strong advocate of ensuring the creation of Glac ...
retreated significantly, it used to encompass The Salamander Glacier and the two become separate sometime before 1929. The Salamander Glacier was measured at in 2005, which is a 23 percent reduction since 1966.
[ Though only in length, The Salamander Glacier is about wide.
File:Grinnell and The Salamander Glaciers in 1911.jpg, Grinnell Glacier (foreground) connected to The Salamander Glacier (upper right) as photographed in 1911
File:Grinnell Glacier 1938.jpg, The Salamander Glacier above Grinnell Glacier as photographed in 1938
File:Salamander Glacier.jpg, Salamander Glacier from Many Glacier Valley July 2017
]
References
See also
* List of glaciers in the United States
This is a list of glaciers existing in the United States, currently or in recent centuries. These glaciers are located in nine states, all in the Rocky Mountains or farther west. The southernmost named glacier among them is the Lilliput Glacier ...
* Glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.)
There are at least 35 named glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.). At the end of the Little Ice Age about 1850, the area containing the national park had 150 glaciers. There are 25 active glaciers remaining in the park as of 2022. Since the l ...
Glaciers of Glacier County, Montana
Glaciers of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Glaciers of Montana
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