Glacier Mendenhall

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• Mendenhall Glacier — and frozen Mendenhall Lake on a clear winter day …   Wikipedia

• Mendenhall River — The Mendenhall River is an Alaskan river north of Juneau in the Mendenhall Valley. The river begins at the Mendenhall Lake, at the base of the Mendenhall Glacier. Contents 1 Rafting on the river 2 Flooding 3 Interesting facts …   Wikipedia

• Glacier terminus — A glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating. The… …   Wikipedia

• Mendenhall Valley — Mendenhall Valley, Juneau, Alaska Mendenhall Valley (locally known as The Valley) is an area of Juneau in the U.S. state of Alaska. The valley, named for physicist and meteorologist Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, was formed by Mendenhall Glacier over… …   Wikipedia

• Mendenhall Lake — Location Juneau, Alaska Coordinates …   Wikipedia

• Mendenhall — may refer to: Contents 1 Place names 1.1 Alaska 1.2 Other 2 Names of things 3 Names of …   Wikipedia

• Mendenhall Glacier — Blue ice sheet, 12 mi (19 km) long, 1. 5 mi (2.4 km) wide, and more than 100 ft (30 m) high. It flows from the southern half of the huge Juneau Icefield, which lies in the Boundary Ranges in southeastern Alaska, U.S. A relic of the Little Ice Age …   Universalium

• Mendenhall Glacier — Der Mendenhall Gletscher in Alaska Der Mendenhall Gletscher, früher Auke Gletscher, befindet sich 21 km vom Stadtzentrum Juneaus, der Hauptstadt Alaskas, entfernt. Er ist einer der Ausläufer des fast 4000 Quadratkilometer großen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Mendenhall Glacier — noun a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska • Syn: ↑Great Mendenhall Glacier • Instance Hypernyms: ↑Piedmont glacier, ↑Piedmont type of glacier • Part Holonyms: ↑Alaska, ↑Last Frontier, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• glacier — glaciered, adj. /glay sheuhr/, n. an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of… …   Universalium