Sprague Glacier is a small
cirque glacier
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A cirque glacier is formed in a cirque, a bowl-shaped depression on the side of or near mountains. Snow and ice accumulation in corries often occurs as the result of avalanching from higher surrounding slopes.
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in
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park is a List of national parks of the United States, national park of the United States located approximately northwest of Denver in north-central Colorado, within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The park is s ...
in the U.S. state of
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
.
Sprague Glacier is on the east side of the
Continental Divide
A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not ...
and southeast of
Sprague Mountain
Sprague Mountain is a mountain summit on the boundary shared by Grand County, Colorado, Grand County and Larimer County, Colorado, Larimer County, in Colorado, United States. It is set on the Continental Divide in the Front Range of the Rocky M ...
. Several small alpine lakes are near the foot of the glacier.
See also
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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.
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References
Glaciers of Colorado
Landforms of Larimer County, Colorado
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