Leidy Glacier (Danish: Leidy Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
This glacier was named by Robert Peary after paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist Joseph Leidy (1823 – 1891), member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.[3]
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^Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
LeidyGlacier (Danish: Leidy Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier...
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province of wealthy amateurs. The LeidyGlacier in northwest Greenland was named by Robert Peary after him. Joseph Leidy was born on September 9, 1823, to...
the head of Olrik Fjord, where the LeidyGlacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet through the Academy Glacier into both fjords. List of fjords of...
high cliffs displaying multicolored strata. The Marie Glacier, an offshoot of the LeidyGlacier, discharges at the head of the Olrik Fjord, not far from...
inner fjord with the LeidyGlacier at its head and the narrow Olrik Fjord running roughly from east to west. The Heilprin Glacier, flowing from the Greenland...
Nebraska, Leidy found the vertebrae of an extinct Canis species that he reported the following year under the name C. dirus. The name C. primaevus (Leidy 1854)...
may be over 20 miles (32 km) away near Leidy Peak. There, Hacking Lake is a short hike off the trail. From Leidy Peak westward, the trail crosses long...
775 feet (4,199 m) in Northwest Wyoming. Below its north face is Teton Glacier. The mountain is a classic destination in American mountaineering via the...
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largest glaciers in the U.S. Rocky Mountains. Gannett Glacier which flows down the north slope of Gannett Peak, is the largest single glacier in the Rocky...
the largest one in the range. Other glaciers such as the Middle Teton Glacier, Teepe Glacier, and Schoolroom Glacier are also located here. The Cathedral...
Badlands in the American Journal of Science. Not long afterward, Joseph Leidy described the Oligocene camel Poebrotherium, which was discovered in the...
northern part of the range. Since 1987, the Glacier Lakes area of the Snowy Range has been home to the Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiments Site (GLEES),...
feet (1,800 m) above Jackson Lake. Several active glaciers exist on the mountain with Skillet Glacier plainly visible on the monolithic east face. Like...
QA0744. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved 3 September 2022. "Mount Leidy". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey,...
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returning from his expedition he gave the fossils to Joseph Leidy in Philadelphia. Leidy could tell that these teeth were different than those of any...
retained the former name informally. By 1869, American paleontologist Joseph Leidy determined that Mastodon americanus is the senior species synonym and listed...
valley glaciers. However, despite reaching to over 13,500 feet (4,110 m) in elevation, the climate today is sufficiently dry that no glaciers survived...
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by the river it lived alongside. Leidy called the creature Hadrosaurus foulkii after Foulke. In 1865, Joseph Leidy described a single poorly preserved...
the Grand Teton, and the two are separated from one another by the Teton Glacier and Mount Owen.[citation needed] Teewinot Mountain rises more than 5,500...
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be found in the mountain range, the only remaining active glacier is the Cloud Peak Glacier, which is on the east slope of Cloud Peak. Geologist N.H....
by subtropical swamps. Climate gradually cooled until the Ice Age, when glaciers entered the area and mammoths and mastodons roamed the local woodlands...
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