Chavez Glacier

Chavez Glacier
Location of Chavez Glacier in Antarctica
Location	Ellsworth Land
Coordinates	73°55′S 101°15′W / 73.917°S 101.250°W / -73.917; -101.250
Length	10 nmi (19 km; 12 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Cranton Bay
Status	unknown

Chavez Glacier (73°55′S 101°15′W / 73.917°S 101.250°W / -73.917; -101.250Coordinates: 73°55′S 101°15′W / 73.917°S 101.250°W / -73.917; -101.250) is a glacier about 10 nmi (19 km; 12 mi) long flowing south from Canisteo Peninsula into Cranton Bay. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Pat Chavez of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Flagstaff, Arizona, co-leader of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer maps of Antarctica in the 1990s.^[1]

See also

References

↑ "Chavez Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-11-05.

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Chavez Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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Volcanic relations

Erosional	Arête Cirque Cirque stairway Crag and tail Finger lake Fjord Glacial horn Glacial lake Glacial striae Hanging valley Ribbon lake Roche moutonnée Tarn Trough lake Trough valley Tunnel valley U-valley Valley step Zungenbecken
Depositional	Drumlin Erratic block Moraine Moraine-dammed lake Pulju moraine Rogen moraine Sevetti moraine Terminal moraine Till plain Veiki moraine
Glacifluvial	Alpentor Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur Urstromtal

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