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What is the name of the famous valley in a California national park that was formed by a glacier?
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What is the name of a valley in a California national park that was formed by a glacier?
santa clarita valley
What is the name of a famous valley formed from a glacier?
Yosemite
What are some land formation in California formed by erosion?
Yosemite National Park and lakes were formed by erosion in California.
What California valley was formed by a glacier?
The Yosemite Valley is one such valley, but there are many.
What famous valley in a national park was formed by a glacier?
Essentially every feature in Glacier National Park was formed by a period of glaciation during the Pleistocene Ice Age, including all the mountains and all the valleys. A look at a map of the park will show several large, long lakes whose beds were scoured out by these glaciers. Some famous and oft-photographed valleys in the park that are easily accessible by car (and on the internet via webcam at www.nps.gov/glac ) are the Lake McDonald Valley, the St. Mary Valley, and the Many Glacier Valley.
What made the name be Glacier National Park?
Glacier National Park's name reflects its glacially-formed topography: chiseled mountain peaks, broad u-shaped valleys, and beautiful lakes.
Is Arcadia National Park Maine a primary or secondary coast?
Primary because a glacier formed it
Why is Iceland famous for the Jokulsarlon glacier?
Jökulsárlón (or Jokulsarlon) isn't a glacier.It is a lake, which formed in 1934 because of the glacial melting of Breiðamerkurjökull.(or Breidamerkurjokull in an anglicised version).The lón, which means lagoon, is filled with icebergs, which are calving off the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, which is the reason it is a popular "famous" tourist destination.As you mentioned it, "the Jokulsarlon glacier" is the Vatnajökull glacier, the before mentioned Breiðamerkurjökull is a "icefall sub-glacier" of Vatnajökull, but they are the same block of ice.Vatnajökull is the largest glacier in Europe. These are some reasons to "why Iceland is famous for the Jokulsarlon glacier".
How are hanging vallies formed?
it is formed by a glacier
What is alpine glaciers?
An alpine glacier is a glacier that FORMED on a mountain. It doesn't have to BE on a mountain, just formed on one.
Was the great salt lake formed by a glacier?
yes from the cintinental period a glacier swept acrost and made a hole and the glacier melted and formed the salt lakes
How was yosemite formed?
By a glacier
