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Glacier (other)
A glacier is a geological formation of ice. Glacier may also refer to: Places Canada * Glacier, British Columbia, a railway whistlestop and locality in the Rogers Pass, British Columbia * Glacier National Park (Canada), British Columbia * Glacier Pass, a pass on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut * Glacier Peak (Canadian Rockies), a mountain on the Alberta-British Columbia border in Kootenay National Park * Glacier Pikes, a volcano in British Columbia United States * Glacier, Washington, a census-designated place in Whatcom County, Washington * Glacier Bay, southeastern Alaska * Glacier County, Montana, northwestern Montana, adjacent to the US-Canada border * Glacier National Park (U.S.), Montana * Glacier Peak, a mountain in the North Cascades of Washington * Glacier View, Alaska, a census-designated place in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Elsewhere * Gletscherland (Glacier Land), Greenland Arts, entertainment and music * Glacier (dance work), a 2013 contemporary dance work by New York c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glacier
A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as Crevasse, crevasses and Serac, seracs, as it slowly flows and deforms under stresses induced by its weight. As it moves, it abrades rock and debris from its substrate to create landforms such as cirques, moraines, or fjords. Although a glacier may flow into a body of water, it forms only on land and is distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water. On Earth, 99% of glacial ice is contained within vast ice sheets (also known as "continental glaciers") in the polar regions, but glaciers may be found in mountain ranges on every continent other than the Australian mainland, including Oceania's high-latitude oceanic island countries such as New Zealand. Between lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
