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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

Mountain Glaciers

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Muddy River Glacier, 1948 Fox Glacier, Southern Alps, New Zealand
Satellite view of mountain glaciers in Bhutan Variegated Glacier art element
Chickamin Glacier Donjek Glacier, Yukon, Canada, 1985
images, left to right, top to bottom:
> Muddy River Glacier, Frederick Sound, Alaska, 1948; Fox Glacier, Southern Alps, New Zealand
> Satellite view of mountain glaciers in Bhutan; Variegated Glacier, Saint Elias Mountains, Alaska
> Chickamin Glacier; Donjek Glacier, Yukon, Canada, 1985