Salmon Glacier

Salmon Glacier

Salmon Glacier is North America's fifth largest glacier.Fact|date=March 2008

The glacier ends at sea level and reaches heights of 4300 ft.Fact|date=March 2008 The glacier shows a line of rock debris called a medial moraine running down the middle of the glacier. At various points there are lateral moraines along the banks of the glacier. The face of the glacier changes always with crevasses being created by the cross movement of the ice flow.

This glacier is located in the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, British Columbia, Canada, near the Alaska border, and can be accessed by road from Stewart, British Columbia from early July to late September. Summit Lake is located at the northern end of the glacier and every year around mid-July the lake breaks an ice-dam and then flows under the Salmon Glacier into the Salmon River. This causes the river to rise approximately 4 - 5 feet for several days.Fact|date=March 2008

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