Parcul Național Grand-Teton

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Waterfalls and Glaciers

Grand Teton National Park features several alpine glaciers and cascading waterfalls shaped by tectonic activity and ice age carving. This collection includes the Skillet Glacier on Mount Moran, known for its distinctive frying-pan shape, and the Schoolroom Glacier, which displays classic features like a terminal moraine and proglacial lake. Waterfalls such as Shoshoko and Cleft Falls are fed by seasonal snowmelt and glacial runoff, cutting through ancient Precambrian gneiss and granite within the park's rugged canyon systems.

Waterfalls and Glaciers — Hartă

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A

Middle Teton Glacier

Middle Teton Glacier is on the northeast flank of Middle Teton in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

B

Cleft Falls

Waterfall in Garnet Canyon that flows through a narrow rock fissure along the climbing route to the Teton peaks.

C

Bannock Falls

Waterfall located near the mouth of Garnet Canyon, visible from the trail leading toward the Middle Teton.

D

Shoshoko Falls

Significant waterfall in Avalanche Canyon that drops from the granite shelf below Lake Taminah.

E

Schoolroom Glacier

Schoolroom Glacier is a small glacier in Grand Teton National Park in the U.S. state of Wyoming.

F

Teepe Glacier

Small glacier situated in a high couloir on the eastern slopes of the Grand Teton, south of the main summit.

G

Petersen Glacier

Alpine glacier located on the north side of Mica Lake within the northern Teton Range.

H

Skillet Glacier

Large glacier on the eastern face of Mount Moran, named for its resemblance to a frying pan with a long handle of ice.

I

Triple Glaciers

Series of three distinct ice bodies located on the rugged north face of Mount Moran.

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