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Clements Mountain in Glacier National Park is an example of a horn. An end moraine exists at the base of the horn. You can see some ice (white) in the photograph behind the moraine. In this photo, we are looking to the west. The photo was taken from the trail where the camera is located. The trail is shown on the map by the thin black, dashed line, just east of the word "Clements." North on the map is towards the top. On the topographic map, the horn is symbolized by closely spaced, closed contour lines. The close spacing shows the steep sides of the horn. Ice is shown to the east of Clements Mountain on the map; this is the same ice shown in the photo. Close examination of the topographic map indicates that 3 or 4 glaciers eroded away at this mountain peak to create the horn: two of these glaciers ultimately flowed northwards, one flowed to the southeast (we now see Hidden Lake where this glacier started), and one glacier still exists to the east of Clements Mountain.


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Created June 1997 by Karen A. Lemke. Last updated January 17, 2002 by KAL (klemke@uwsp.edu).