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Coordinates: 57°43′59″N 130°35′06″W / 57.73306°N 130.58500°W

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Tenchen Glacier
Tenchen Glacier
Type	Mountain glacier
Location	Mount Edziza, British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates	57°43′59″N 130°35′06″W / 57.73306°N 130.58500°W / 57.73306; -130.58500^[1]
Status	Retreating

Tenchen Glacier is located on the eastern flank of Mount Edziza in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It lies within an immense cirque whose headwall has breached the eastern side of Mount Edziza's summit crater. At the head of Tenchen Glacier are icefalls that drape down shear, 300-metre-high (980-foot) cliffs from the breached eastern crater rim; permanent ice fills the summit crater.^[2] Meltwater from Tenchen Glacier feeds Tenchen Creek which eventually merges with Kakiddi Creek.^[3]

The name of the glacier was suggested by the Geological Survey of Canada on November 19, 1979, and eventually became official on November 24, 1980. Tenchen is derived from the Tahltan words ten and chen, which mean ice and dirty respectively. The name of this glacier is a reference to its debris-covered surface.^[1]

Geology

The Tenchen cirque is the product of erosion that gradually enlarged an initial scar formed by an explosive eruption that blew away part of the eastern summit crater rim. Hydrothermally altered rocks of the central volcanic conduit as well as lava lakes that once filled the summit crater are exposed in the headwall of Tenchen cirque. These rocks are part of the Edziza Formation which comprises the central stratovolcano of Mount Edziza.^[2] Landsliding of the steep headwall and bounding spurs of Tenchen cirque has resulted in Tenchen Glacier being completely covered by rock debris.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Tenchen Glacier". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
^ ^a ^b Souther, J. G. (1992). The Late Cenozoic Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada (Report). Memoir 420. Canada Communication Group. pp. 21, 175, 177, 179. doi:10.4095/133497. ISBN 0-660-14407-7.
^ "Tenchen Glacier". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2024-03-17.

v t e Mount Edziza volcanic complex
Cinder cones	The Ash Pit Cache Hill Camp Hill Cinder Cliff Cocoa Crater Coffee Crater Eve Cone Exile Hill Icefall Cone Kana Cone Keda Cone Klastline Cone Mess Lake Cone Moraine Cone Nahta Cone Outcast Hill Ridge Cone Sidas Cone Sleet Cone Source Hill Storm Cone Thaw Hill Triplex Cones Twin Cone Walkout Creek centres Williams Cone
Subglacial volcanoes	Pillow Ridge Tennena Cone Tsekone Ridge Wetalth Ridge
Central volcanoes	Armadillo Peak Mount Edziza Ice Peak Spectrum Range
Lava domes	Glacier Dome IGC Centre Nanook Dome Pharaoh Dome The Pyramid Sphinx Dome Triangle Dome
Lava fields	Desolation Lava Field Mess Lake Lava Field Snowshoe Lava Field
Plateaus	Arctic Lake Plateau Big Raven Plateau Kitsu Plateau
Ridges	Artifact Ridge Cartoona Ridge Idiji Ridge Obsidian Ridge Pillow Ridge Sorcery Ridge Tsekone Ridge Wetalth Ridge Yagi Ridge
Mountain passes	Destell Pass Raspberry Pass
Bluffs	Koosick Bluff Ornostay Bluff
Glaciers	Idiji Glacier Tenchen Glacier Tencho Glacier Tennaya Glacier
Streams	Artifact Creek Ball Creek Bourgeaux Creek Chakima Creek Crayke Creek Elwyn Creek Flyin Creek Gerlib Creek Kadeya Creek Kitsu Creek Little Iskut River More Creek Nagha Creek Nido Creek Pyramid Creek Raspberry Creek Sezill Creek Shaman Creek Sorcery Creek Stewbomb Creek Tadekho Creek Taweh Creek Tenchen Creek Tennaya Creek Tsecha Creek Walkout Creek
Geological formations	Armadillo Formation Big Raven Formation Edziza Formation Klastline Formation Little Iskut Formation Nido Formation Pyramid Formation Raspberry Formation
Other	Gnu Butte Mess Creek Escarpment Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex

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