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Schoolroom Glacier

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Length
  
325 ft (100 m)

Status
  
Retreating

Terminus
  
Moraine/Talus slope

Area
  
8,000 m²

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Type
  
Mountain/Hanging glacier

Schoolroom Glacier is a small glacier in Grand Teton National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. This Teton Range glacier lies adjacent to the south Cascade Canyon trail at an altitude of 10,400 ft (3,200 m), approximately 12 mi (19 km) from the trailhead at Jenny Lake. The glacier has many of the classic textbook details of a glacier, namely, well defined terminal and lateral moraines, crevasses, a proglacial lake and related features which led to the naming schoolroom.

Map of Schoolroom Glacier, Wyoming 83414, USA

As is true for a vast majority of glaciers worldwide, Schoolroom Glacier has been in a state of retreat for many decades, and if current climatic conditions persist, the glacier is anticipated to disappear by the year 2030, if not sooner.

References

Schoolroom Glacier Wikipedia


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