what kind of glacier is the Beardmore Glacier?
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in Antarctica is the largest glacier in the world, The glacier is one of the main passages from the Ross Ice Shelf through the Queen Alexandra and Commonwealth ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains to the Antarctic Plateau, and thus made the early conquest of the South Pole possible.\nIt was discovered by Ernest Shackleton during his Nimrod Antarctic expedition of 1908, and named after Sir William Beardmore, an expedition sponsor. Although Shackleton turned back before reaching the South Pole, he had discovered the first proven route to the pole, and in doing so, became the first person to set foot upon the great polar plateau. In 1911-1912, Captain Scott and his team successfully reached the South Pole by climbing the Beardmore. However, they reached the pole a month after Roald Amundsen and his team, who had climbed the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier.
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Mount Snow is a great place that is not too challenging yet has a variety of terrain.  Its a big mountain but you are able to ski and see it all.  Killington is a lot bigger but has many trails.  Check out Stratton which is a beautiful mountain, Okemo, Smugglers Notch (challenging terrain).  Those are in Vermont.  New Hampshire and Maine also have great big mountain skiing.
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Penguins, bears and seals. Whales. That is a consensus. As for the flaura, lichen ... try looking the remainder up.
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Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of Seattle, Washington, in the United States. It is the highest peak in the Cascade Range, with a topographical summit of 14,411 feet (4,392 m); there is no greater elevation until the meeting of the borders of Yukon, Alaska, and British Columbia beyond the Alsek River to the north. The mountain and the surrounding area comprise Mount Rainier National Park. The mountain is mostly covered by snow and glaciers, but heat from the volcano keeps areas of the crater rim on its summit cone mostly free of snow and ice. The geothermal heat has also caused the formation of ice caves in the twin summit craters.\n\nMore details in \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier
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The permanently frozen part of the earth's surface is called the Cryosphere.
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You can rest easy on this one.\n\nNo, an entire glacier will not slip off into the ocean all at once causing a massive global tsunami that wipes out the entire world.\n\nFor one thing, a glacier is a very large collection of ice, which usually has a collection of impurities, such as rocks, plants, frozen mamoths, and such inside it.  These objects inside the glacier have a different structural strength and flexibility than the ice, so the ice tends to crack around them.\n\nEven if the glacier were pure ice, ice only has so much rigidity, and as it grinds it's way toward the sea through the winding valley it inhabits, the glacier will naturally break up into chunks of various sizes.\n\nAs the glacier nears the coast line, these different chunks begin to break off, forming ice burgs of different sizes.  This naturally limits the size of any one ice burg, and that in turn limits the possible tsunami scale waves to rather small splashes.  In fact, to get bigger ice burgs, the part where the ice enters the water must be closer to the same height, so a splash from a very big ice burg would instead be a small ripple as it goes down a much shorter distance in falling into the sea.\n\nYou could go through some complicated equations to figure out just how big a piece of ice could possibly fall into the ocean at any one time, and how far it would fall to figure out just how big a wave it could make, and then determine how far such a wave could propagate before it died out like ripples in a pond, but the basic fact is that no ice burg could cause a massive tidal wave.\n\nPresumably, if the water under the glacier melted really fast, the entire glacier might fall into the ocean, forming many, many small splashes as each piece broke and fell, but again, water is not a perfect lubricant, and this will limit the rate at which they fall, which will prevent a single catastrophic tidal wave, although under certain circumstances, the ice burgs might fall in a pattern that produced very choppy water that ships wouldn't be able to sail in... but again, not on a global scale.\n\nAre government leaders in the US aware of this posibility? NO!  government leaders are barely even aware of how to get themselves re-elected.\n\nIs it too late to do anything about it?  Umm, no.  We could build enormous mirrors in various parts of the world to reflect more sunlight back into space, which should reduce the effects of global warming to some extent.  That, along with using jets to produce global dimming, and changing to less polluting equippment to reduce greenhouse gasses might keep the ice burgs from falling too fast to make choppy water.\n\nIs the USA to blame for what will happen to our planet? of course.  With a population of less than half that of China or india, and much cleaner resources we are obviously the major polluters in the world. \n\nIs this event the next "Mass Extinction?"  only for fish that get in the way of the falling ice bergs.
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There is the base of Multnomah Falls, or Crown Point for the view.  I am biased about Mt. Tabor in SE Portland,it is an extinct volcano. I was married on top of Mt. Tabor,nice view of the city.
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
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They are called lateral moraines.
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Google, Wikipedia, and United States Coast Guard maps only indicate Antarctica.\n\nThe only other possibilities, which I doubt, are either New Zealand or Chile.
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A subglacial volcano is a volcanic form produced by eruptions beneath a glacier or beneath the surface of a lake within a glacier. Today they are most common in Iceland and Antarctica; older formations of this type are found also in parts of Canada. Their shape tends to be characteristic and unusual, with flat top and steep sides. If the heat produced by the volcano is high enough to melt through the ice layer, however, the volcano assumes a more conventional shape.
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The Valles Marineris is a system of canyons located just south of the Martian equator. The system is about 4000 km long, and, if on earth, would extend all the way across the United States. The central individual troughs, generally 50 to 100 km wide, merge into a depression as much as 600 km wide. In places the canyon floor reaches a depth of 10 km, 6 to 7 times deeper than the Grand Canyon. The geologic history of the central canyon system is complex: first the surface collapsed into a few deep depressions that later became filled with layered material, perhaps as lake deposits. Then graben-forming faults cut across some of the older troughs thus widening existing troughs, breaching barriers between troughs, and forming additional ones. At that time the interior deposits were locally bent and tilted, and perhaps water, if still present, spilled out and flowed toward the outflow channels. Huge landslides fell into the voids created by the new grabens. Wind-drifted material, mostly dark in color, apparently still moves along the canyon floor and locally forms conspicuous dunes. We have created images of the martian canyon, primarily in the central region, Ophir and Candor Chasmata, by merging Viking images with topographic maps. Maps of Ophir and central Candor Chasmata are derived from stereo images by photogrammetry. They have 200-m contour interval, except for local gaps that have 1-km contour interval. West Candor Chasma has 1-km contour interval. The three-dimensional anaglyph images generated using locally produced MIPS software (Mini Image Processing System) require red and blue glasses to view. A Geographic Information System (GIS) software package (ArcInfo) was used to super-impose several layers of information, specifically geologic units, geologic structures, images, and topography.
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it has To be alaska... its probably too cold for any flowers anyways
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Bear Mountain.. thats the nearest place you can do all those stuff
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the yes or no ones and the easy ones...\nglobal warming is causing glaciers to melt which sucks..
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Karley.\nUnfortunately the e-mail has a number of spelling mistakes which makes the question not clear.\nNevertheless, if you require furtehr info on lassen peak, go to: http://www.msss.com/earth/lassen/lassen2.html
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info\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_climate\n\ngraph\nhttp://www.vaw.ethz.ch/research/glaciology/permafrost/gz_permafrost_temp_monitoring_1.jpg/image\nhttp://www.cbr.washington.edu/data/Streams/dataimg/Storet134.gif