Stanton Glacier

Infobox_Glacier | glacier_name = Stanton Glacier


caption =
type = cirque glacier
location = Montana, U.S.
coordinates = coord|48|20|11|N|113|46|22|W|type:glacier
area =
length = .20 miles (.32 km)
thickness =
terminus =
status = retreating

Stanton Glacier is located in the U.S. state of Montana in Flathead National Forest. The glacier is situated in a cirque on the northeast slope of Great Northern Mountain. [cite web| title =Stanton Glacier, USGS Mount Grant (MT) Topo Map| work =| publisher =TopoQuest| date =| url =http://www.topoquest.com/map.asp?lat=48.33628&lon=-113.77274&size=l&u=4&datum=nad83&layer=DRG| format =Map| accessdate = 2008-07-04] Stanton Glacier is one of several glaciers that have been selected for monitoring by the U.S. Geological Survey's Glacier Monitoring Research program, which is researching changes to the mass balance of glaciers in and surrounding Glacier National Park (U.S.). [cite web| last = | year = 2007| url = http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/research/Secondary_Network.htm| title = Monitoring and Assessing Glacier Changes and Their Associated Hydrologic and Ecologic Effects in Glacier National Park | publisher = U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center| accessdate = 2008-01-08] Stanton Glacier is immediately north of Grant Glacier.

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ee also

*List of glaciers