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GLACIER
TYPES
retreating glaciers
piedmont glaciers
icefields
hanging glaciers
tidewater glaciers
surging glaciers
rock glaciers
mountain glaciers
ice caps

GLACIER FEATURES
glacier terminus
ice caves
icefall
crevasses
ogives

GLACIAL LANDFORMS
glacial grooves and striations
chatter marks
glacial trough
glacial erratic
moraines
aretes, horns, and cirques
drumlins

Crevasses

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Crevasse on Za-da-Zan Glacier, Pennine Alps, Europe, 1894 Sperry Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1909
Crevasses on Exit Glacier, Alaska Lyman Glacier, Chelan National Forest, Washington
Stockje Glacier, Pennine Alps, Europe, 1894

images, top to bottom, left to right:
> Crevasse on Za-da-Zan Glacier, Pennine Alps; Sperry Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana
> Exit Glacier, Alaska; Lyman Glacier, Chelan National Forest, Washington
> Stockje Glacier, Pennine Alps