Bow Glacier lies in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, about 37 kilometers northwest of Lake Louise and visible from the Icefields Parkway. It is an outflow glacier of the Wapta Icefield, which sits along the Continental Divide, and it carved the Bow Valley before retreating at the end of the last glacial maximum. Meltwater from the glacier feeds Bow Lake and the Bow River, and the glacier's terminus rests at a moraine; it has retreated steadily since 1850, pulling back about 1,100 meters by 1953, and continued recession has both formed a new lake at its terminal moraine and increased sediment reaching Bow Lake. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Classification
Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Connections
Caused By
Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Glaciation via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Bow Glacier
In Discipline
Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Glaciology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Bow Glacier
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, found in there.
Sources
1. Bow Glacier (Wikipedia)
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Bow Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, approximately 37 km (23 mi) northwest of Lake Louise.
Entity description, protection designation
Bow Glacier lies in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, about 37 kilometers northwest of Lake Louise and visible from the Icefields Parkway. It is an outflow glacier of th
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