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Gotchen Glacier

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Type
  
Mountain glacier

Terminus
  
Talus

Length
  
.20 mi (0.32 km)

Status
  
Retreating

Gotchen Glacier

Area
  
0.17 km (0.066 sq mi) in 2006

Gotchen Glacier is located on the south slopes of Mount Adams a stratovolcano in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington. The glacier descends from approximately 8,200 ft (2,500 m) to a terminus near 7,400 ft (2,300 m) below which an old terminal moraine and proglacial lake exist. Gotchen Glacier has been in a general state of retreat for over 100 years and lost 78 percent of its surface area between 1904 and 2006.

Map of Gotchen Glacier, Washington, USA

References

Gotchen Glacier Wikipedia