Meade Glacier is located in the
Goat Rocks
Goat Rocks is an Volcano#Extinct, extinct stratovolcano in the Cascade Range, located between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams (Washington), Mount Adams in southern Washington (state), Washington, in the United States. Part of the Cascade Volcan ...
region in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Washington
Washington most commonly refers to:
* George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States
* Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A ...
.
The glacier is within the
Goat Rocks Wilderness
Goat Rocks Wilderness is a U.S. wilderness area in Washington, United States, comprising of Okanagan–Wenatchee National Forest and Gifford Pinchot National Forest on the crest of the Cascade Range south of U.S. Highway 12. Its central feat ...
of
Snoqualmie National Forest Snoqualmie might refer to:
People
* Snoqualmie people, a Coast Salish people of Washington state
:* Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribe of Snoqualmie people
Places
* Snoqualmie Indian Reservation
*Snoqualmie Valley, ancestral ho ...
, south of
Conrad Glacier
Conrad Glacier is located in the Goat Rocks region of the U.S. state of Washington. Situated on the north side of Gilbert Peak, the glacier flows north-northeast from an elevation of to barren rocks and talus. A proglacial lake at , lies where ...
and immediately east of
Gilbert Peak. Meade Glacier is split into three sections and the lower
ablation zone
Ablation zone or ''ablation area'' refers to the low-altitude area of a glacier or ice sheet below firn with a net loss in ice mass. This loss can result from melting, sublimation, evaporation, ice calving, aeolian processes like blowing snow, ...
at is not connected to the upper
accumulation zone
On a glacier, the accumulation zone is the area above the firn line, where snowfall accumulates and exceeds the losses from ablation, ( melting, evaporation, and sublimation). The annual equilibrium line separates the accumulation and ablation ...
at .
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See also
*List of glaciers in the United States
Glaciers are located in ten states, with the vast majority in Alaska. The southernmost named glacier is the Lilliput Glacier in Tulare County, California, Tulare County, east of the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of California.
Apa ...
References
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Glaciers of the Goat Rocks
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Glaciers of Washington (state)