Red Eagle Glacier is a glacier remnant (
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 ...
) in
Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of
Montana
Montana ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, an ...
. The glacieret is a hanging glacier located on the north slope of
Clyde Peak
Clyde Peak is an mountain summit located in Glacier National Park (US), Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The mountain straddles the border shared by Flathead County, Montana, Flathead County and Glacier County, Montana, Glaci ...
, and to the southeast of
Mount Logan
Mount Logan ( ) is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America after Denali (McKinley). The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada ...
and
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 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 ...
* Glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.)
References
Glaciers of Glacier County, Montana
Glaciers of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Glaciers of Montana
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