The location of the largest continental glacier on Earth.
A large, perennial accumulation of ice, snow, rock, and sediment that originates on land and moves down slope under the influence of its own weight and gravity.
A time when glaciers advance and grow larger.
A streamlined, long, low hill of glacial till oriented parallel to the direction of movement of a continental glacier.
The parallel scratches in bedrock produced by the scouring action of glacial ice.
Finely ground rock "powder" produced by the abrasion of rock against rock in a glacier.
A narrow, deep, elongated crack that develops in the surface of a moving glacier.
An ice sheet that spreads in all directions from its center.
A winding ridge of sand and gravel formed beneath a glacier by the depositional action of melt water streams.
A blanket of till deposited by the glacier dropping it sediment as it retreats.
A lake formed in a glacial cirque.
How glaciers move, rather than in a rigid manner.
Annual, layers of fine sediment deposited in lakes by the melt water of glaciers.
Isolated large boulder, carried by a glacier far from its parent rock or source.
The combination of processes by which a glacier loses ice and snow.
A sharp pointed glacial peak with steep sides, formed by the intersecting walls of three or more cirques.