Schoolroom Glacier

Infobox_Glacier | glacier_name = Schoolroom Glacier

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caption = Schoolroom Glacier
type = Mountain/Hanging glacier
location = Wyoming, U.S.
coordinates = coord|43|43|31.18|N|110|50|57.94|W|type:glacier_region:US-WY
area = .8 ha (2 acres)
length = 100 m (325 ft)
thickness =
terminus = Moraine/Talus slope
status = Retreating

Schoolroom Glacier is the small glacier located in Grand Teton National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [cite web | last = TopoQuest | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = | url = http://www.topoquest.com/map.php?lat=43.72572&lon=-110.84831&datum=nad27&zoom=4 | title = Schoolroom Glacier, USGS Grand Teton (WY) Topo Map | format = Map| work = | publisher =TopoQuest USGS Quads| accessdate = 2008-05-09] This Teton Range glacier lies adjacent to the south Cascade Canyon trail at an altitude of 10,400 feet (3,170 m), approximately 12 miles (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".

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. [cite web | last = Petersen | first = Bryce | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = | url = http://www.standard.net/standard.php/features/60097?printable=story | title = See Schoolroom, Petersen -- before they're gone | format = | work = | publisher = Standard-Examiner | accessdate = 2007-03-27]

Cited references

ee also

*Retreat of glaciers since 1850
*List of glaciers