Pawnee Cirque Rock Glaciers

Now you are standing in front of a tongue-shaped rock glacier. As you move closer, the bouldery surface of the rock glacier is becomes apparent. The surface is a heterogeneous mixture of different sized material. If you look closely, it appears someone has painted white numbers on some of the boulders (large one left of center).

Figure 7.5 Tongue-shaped rock glacier on floor of Pawnee Cirque (Photo Credit: Michael Ritter)

Figure 7.6 Close-up of rock glacier surface. (Photo Credit: Michael Ritter)

But what is a rock glacier?

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Created by Michael Ritter ( mritter@uwsp.edu ) Last revised June 25, 1997