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Glacieret
A glacieret is a very small glacier, with a surface area less than . The term is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to a large, persistent snow patch of firn or névé. Characteristics Sometimes hardly larger than snowfields and perennial firn patches, glacierets tend to have little ice movement, with accumulation and ablation zones difficult to detect. During the last ice age, glacierets were an intermediate stage between firn patches and fully fledged glaciers, but in the present day, glacierets are usually remnants of larger glaciers that existed. Due to their small size, they are at a higher risk of melting due to climate change than larger glaciers. Examples * Snezhnika in the Pirin range of Bulgaria was the southernmost glacial mass in Europe before the discovery of glaciers on Mount Bazardüzü. * The Banski Suhodol Glacieret, also in the Pirin, is the only other surviving glacial mass in Bulgaria. * There are some glacierets in the range of the Pyrenees. * The Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snezhnika Glacieret July 2012
Snezhnika ( 'the snow patch') is a glacieret in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria, a remnant of the former Vihren Glacier.Grunewald, p. 129. The glacieret lies at an elevation between and in the deep Golemiya Kazan cirque at the steep northern foot of Vihren (), Pirin's highest summit. Due to the relatively easy access and its location along a popular hiking trail, Snezhnika is Bulgaria's most famous glacieret. Snezhnika has an average area of and in 2006 it had a volume of . Snezhnika's size varies in length from 70 to 100 metres (west to east) and in width from 40 to 90 metres (north to south). Its firn is 8–11 m thick at the base and its snow cover, which is mostly fed by avalanche snow, can be as deep as 20 metres in March and April. Snezhnika's latitude of 41°46′09″ N makes it the southernmost glacial mass in Europe; the nearby Banski Suhodol Glacier below Koncheto, although larger, is slightly to the north. Snezhnika lies in an east-facing hollow adjacent to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snezhnika
Snezhnika ( 'the snow patch') is a glacieret in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria, a remnant of the former Vihren Glacier.Grunewald, p. 129. The glacieret lies at an elevation between and in the deep Golemiya Kazan cirque at the steep northern foot of Vihren (), Pirin's highest summit. Due to the relatively easy access and its location along a popular hiking trail, Snezhnika is Bulgaria's most famous glacieret. Snezhnika has an average area of and in 2006 it had a volume of . Snezhnika's size varies in length from 70 to 100 metres (west to east) and in width from 40 to 90 metres (north to south). Its firn is 8–11 m thick at the base and its snow cover, which is mostly fed by avalanche snow, can be as deep as 20 metres in March and April. Snezhnika's latitude of 41°46′09″ N makes it the southernmost glacial mass in Europe; the nearby Banski Suhodol Glacier below Koncheto, although larger, is slightly to the north. Snezhnika lies in an east-facing hollow adjace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southernmost Glacial Mass In Europe
The southernmost persistent glacial masses in Europe are mainly small glaciers, glacierets, and perennial firn fields and patches, located in the highest mountains of the three big southern European peninsulas - the Balkans, Balkan, the Italian Peninsula, Apennine, and the Iberian Peninsula, Iberian, the southernmost ranges of the Alps and the glaciers on the european northwestern slopes of the Greater Caucasus mountains in Russia. There are summer lasting snow patches in Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada (Corral de la Veleta (Sierra Nevada), Veleta glacier at 37°03′24″ disappeared completely for a first time in 1913), in Mount Olympus (40°05′08″) (Kazania cirque), in Korab (mountain), Mount Korab (41°47′28″), in Rila Mountain (the cirque of the Seven Rila Lakes, Musala and Malyovitsa (42°10′25″) ridges), in Picos de Europa (43°11′51″) in the Cantabrian Mountains, in Maglić (mountain), Mount Maglić (43°16′52″) and others. However, none of them have b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banski Suhodol Glacier
The Banski Suhodol Glacier (, ''Lednika v Banski Suhodol'') is a glacieret in the Pirin Mountains of Bulgaria. It lies below the Kutelo peak (2908 m.) in the upper Banski Suhodol Valley (). Geography The glacier is on the northern slope of the Kutelo summit and is shaded from the east by the Koncheto ridge. After the nearby Snezhnika glacier (latitude of 41°46′09″ N) Banski Suhodol glacier is the southernmost in Europe, followed by three small glaciers below the Maja Jezerce summit in northern Albania, the Calderone glacier in the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy, and Debeli Namet glacier in Montenegro. Together with the nearby Snezhnika glacieret below Vihren Vihren ( ) is the highest peak of Bulgaria's Pirin Mountains. Reaching , it is Bulgaria's second and the Balkans' third highest, after Musala and Mount Olympus. Although Vihren is deprived of lakes and streams due to the karst topography, a numb ..., it is one of two surviving glacial masses in Bulgaria.Emil Gac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Eagle Glacier
Red Eagle Glacier is a glacier remnant (glacieret) in Glacier National Park (U.S.), Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacieret is a hanging glacier located on the north slope of Clyde Peak, and to the southeast of Mount Logan (Montana), Mount Logan and Logan Glacier (Montana), Logan Glacier. Between 1966 and 2005, Red Eagle Glacier lost 53 percent of its surface area and now covers less than which is below the threshold to qualify as an active glacier. Comparing images of the glacier taken in 1914 with those from 2009, indicates that the glacier has experienced extensive retreat. See also * List of glaciers in the United States * Glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.) References Glaciers of Glacier County, Montana Glaciers of Glacier National Park (U.S.) Glaciers of Montana {{GlacierCountyMT-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
