Hanging Glacier (Jefferson County, Washington)
Hanging Glacier is a located northeast of Mount Anderson (Washington), Mount Anderson in the Olympic Mountains and Olympic National Park, U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. The glacier starts north of a mountain pass, saddle between Mount Anderson and East Peak at about . Like all the glaciers in Olympic National Park, Hanging Glacier is in a state of retreat. See also *List of glaciers in the United States References

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Glaciology
Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, climatology, meteorology, hydrology, biology, and ecology. The impact of glaciers on people includes the fields of human geography and anthropology. The discoveries of water ice on the Moon, Mars, Europa and Pluto add an extraterrestrial component to the field, which is referred to as "astroglaciology". Overview A glacier is an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over a long period of time; glaciers move very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers. Areas of study within glaciology include glacial history and the reconstruction of past glaciation. A glaciologist is a person who studies glaciers. A glacia ...
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