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Ice Fields are masses of glacial ice that flow outwards in all
directions. This is the Kalstenius Ice Field on Ellesmere Island, Canada.
It produces multiple glaciers that flow into a larger valley glacier.
The glacier in this photograph is three miles wide.
(Royal Canadian Air Force photograph at the World Data Center for Glaciology,
Boulder)
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Mountain Glacier
Chickamin Glacier, bounded by mountains on both sides, flows past a cabin
in this photograph taken in 1941. Chickamin Glacier is located in the
coastal mountains shared by southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Canada.
(USGS/L.C. Reed photograph at the World Data Center
for Glaciology, Boulder)
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Tidewater Glaciers are mountain glaciers that terminate in the
ocean. The
Columbia Glacier, above, flows into Columbia Bay out of the Chugach Mountains,
Alaska.
(U.S. Geological Survey photograph at the World
Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder)
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Rock Glaciers have large amounts of rock inside or atop the ice.
This rock glacier in Fryingpan Basin, Colorado shows how the flowing motion
of the ice underneath is evident on the rock covered surface.
(USGS/George L. Snyder photograph at the World Data
Center for Glaciology, Boulder)
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