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Closer view of the glacier in the winter A glacier cave under Mendenhall Glacier. Mendenhall Glacier (Tlingit: Áakʼw Tʼáak Sítʼ) is a glacier about 13.6 miles (21.9 km) long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Juneau in the southeast area of the U.S. state of Alaska. [2]
An ice cave is any type of natural cave (most commonly lava tubes or limestone caves) that contains significant amounts of perennial (year-round) ice. At least a portion of the cave must have a temperature below 0 °C (32 °F) all year round, and water must have traveled into the cave’s cold zone.
The ice formations in the cave were formed by thawing snow which drained into the cave and froze during winter. [4] Since the entrance to the caves is open year-round, chilly winter winds blow into the cave and freeze the snow inside. In summer, a cold wind from inside the cave blows toward the entrance and prevents the formations from melting.
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Mendenhall Lake is a proglacial lake in the Mendenhall Valley at the 1962 terminus of Mendenhall Glacier, three miles (4.8 km) north of the Juneau Airport in the Coast Mountains. It is the source of the short Mendenhall River. [1] The lake is included in the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area of the Tongass National Forest. [2]
Mendenhall Observatory, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA; Mendenhall Order, a decision to change the system of weights and measures to the metric system; Mendenhall Homeplace, a historic 1811 Quaker Homeplace in Jamestown, North Carolina, USA; United States v. Mendenhall, a 1980 decision of the United States Supreme Court
Apart from Alaska, around 1330 glaciers, 1175 perennial snow fields, and 35 buried-ice features have been identified. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
A partly submerged glacier cave on Perito Moreno Glacier. The ice facade is approximately 60 m high Ice formations in the Titlis glacier cave. A glacier cave is a cave formed within the ice of a glacier. Glacier caves are often called ice caves, but the latter term is properly used to describe bedrock caves that contain year-round ice. [1]