Knife Point Glacier

Infobox_Glacier | glacier_name = Knife Point Glacier


caption =
type = Mountain glacier
location = Wyoming, United States
coordinates = coord|43|06|26|N|109|34|41|W|type:glacier_region:US-WY
area =
length = .9 mile (1.45 km)
thickness =
terminus = talus
status = retreating

Knife Point Glacier is located east of the Continental Divide in the northern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The glacier is located in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness of Shoshone National Forest, and is among the largest grouping of glaciers in the American Rocky Mountains. Knife Point Glacier flows to the north and starts below the summit of Knife Point Mountain (13,001 ft/3,962 m). [cite web| first=| last=|title = USGS Fremont Peak South (WY) Topo Map| work =USGS Quad maps|publisher =TopoQuest| date =| url =http://www.topoquest.com/map.asp?lat=43.12277&lon=-109.60299&size=l&u=6&datum=nad83&layer=DRG| accessdate = 2008-07-04]

Along with other glaciers in the Wind River Range, Knife Point Glacier's rapid retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850 has exposed the remains of numerous specimens of the now believed to be extinct Rocky Mountain locust ("Melanoplus spretus") and other related species. [cite journal| last = Lockwood| first = Jeffrey A.| coauthors = Craig D. Thompson, Larry D. Debrey, Charles M. Love, Richard A. Nunamaker, Robert E. Pfadt| title = Preserved Grasshopper Fauna of Knife Point Glacier, Fremont County, Wyoming, U.S.A.| journal = Arctic and Alpine Research| volume = 23| issue = 1| pages = 108–114| publisher = | location = | date = February 1991| url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-0851%28199102%2923%3A1%3C108%3APGFOKP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6&size=SMALL&origin=JSTOR-reducePage| format = | issn =| accessdate = 2007-11-11| month = Feb| year = 1991| doi = 10.2307/1551444]

Cited references

ee also

* List of glaciers