Glacier Blanc

Glacier Blanc
The Glacier Blanc and the Barre des Écrins
Location	Hautes-Alpes, France
Range	Pelvoux, Western Alps
Glacier type	Valley glacier
Length	5.9 km (2002)
Area	5.34 km² (2002)
Ice depth	up to 250 m (2005)
Height	2,400 m to 4,015 m (Dôme de Neige)
Geographical location	44°56′29″N 6°22′50″E / 44.94139°N 6.38056°E / 44.94139; 6.38056
Glacier Blanc (France)

The Glacier Blanc is a glacier in the French département of Hautes-Alpes. Its name (which means "white glacier") derives from the fact that – unlike the nearby Glacier Noir ("black glacier") – its surface appears pristinely white due to an absence of morainic debris.

A glacier that is largely free of such moraines is generally described in French as a glacier blanc.^[1]

^ See "Les cahiers thématiques du Parc national des Écrins – N°1 – Les glaciers" (in French). Parc national des Écrins. December 2005. Archived from the original (pdf) on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2010.

[cahier-1] See "Les cahiers thématiques du Parc national des Écrins – N°1 – Les glaciers" (in French). Parc national des Écrins. December 2005. Archived from the original (pdf) on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2010.

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