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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry201914amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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THE GLACIERS OF MT. RAINIER 663
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West Side of Mount Rainier. A telephoto view taken from Electron, at a distance of 20 miles. The main summit, composed of two new cinder cones n4.408 feet) is seen in the center. To the left is Liberty Cap (14.112 feet), and to the right is Peak Success (14.150 feet), both remnants of the old crater rim. The glaciers in view are 1, North Mowich; 2. Edmunds; 3, South Mowich; 4, Puyallup: 5, Tahoma Glacier) lies the South Mowich Glacier, also a cirque-born ice stream, heading against the base of the Liberty Cap massif. It is the shortest of the western glaciers, measuring only a scant 3 miles. Aside from the snows accumulating in its ill-shajjcd cirque it receives strong reenforcements from its neighbor to the south the Puyallup Glacier. PUYALLUP GLACIER. What esi)ecially distinguishes the Puyallup Glacier from its neighbors to the north is the great elevation of its cirque. The Carbon, North Mowich, and South Mowich Glaciers all head at levels of about 10,000 feet. The amphi- theatre of the Puyallup Glacier, on the contrary, opens a full 2,000 feet higher up. Encircled by a great vertical wall that cuts into the Liberty Cap platform from the south, it has evidently de- veloped through glacial sapping from a hollow of volcanic origin. From this great reservoir the Puyallup Glacier descends by a rather narrow' chute. Then it expands again to a width of three-fourths of a mile and sends a ))ortion of its volume to the South Mowich Glacier. In spite of this loss it continues to expand, reaching a maximum width of a mile and a total length of 4 miles. No doubt this is accounted for by the heavy snowfalls that replenish it throughout its course. TAHO.MA GLACIER. Immediately south of the elevated amphitheater of the Puyallup Glacier the crater rim of the volcano is breached for a distance of half a mile. Through this gap tumbles a voluminous cascade from the neve fields about the summit, and this cascade, recnforced by a flow from the Puyallup cirque, forms the great Tahoma Glacier, the most im- pressive ice stream on the southwest side. Separated from its northern

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