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All Glaciers and Ice Formations

Accumulations and flows of glacial ice and the ice-built formations shaped by them, following the glacial landform class of standard geomorphology. Includes valley and mountain glaciers still actively flowing (Mendenhall Glacier, Columbia Glacier, Deming Glacier), large ice caps and ice sheets covering a whole region (East Antarctic Ice Sheet), and named ice tongues and icefalls where a glacier meets open water or breaks over a steep drop (Drygalski Ice Tongue). Belongs here: any formation whose defining identity is a present-day body of glacial ice. Does not belong here: a valley or fjord shaped by past glacial action that no longer carries ice (Valleys, Coastal and Reef Features), or a rock formation left standing by glacial retreat (Interfluves and Ridges, Other Erosional Landforms).

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is a persistent body of natural ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving under its own weight. 1
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Lilliput Glacier

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Linn Glacier

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Lituya Glacier

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Liv Glacier

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Logan Glacier (Alaska)

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Logan Glacier (Montana)

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Lower Curtis Glacier

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Lower Grindelwald Glacier

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Lowery Glacier

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Lunde Glacier

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Lyell Glacier

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Machoi Glacier

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Mackay Glacier

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Macy Glacier

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Magura Glacier

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Malaspina Glacier

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Margerie Glacier

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Marinelli Glacier

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Marmolada Glacier

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Mars Glacier

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Marsh Glacier

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Matanuska Glacier

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Matterhorn Glacier

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Matthes Glacier

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Matthes Glaciers

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Mawson Glacier

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McArthur Glacier

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McCall Glacier (Washington)

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McCarty Glacier

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McMurdo Dry Valleys

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Mendenhall Glacier

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Miage Glacier

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Middle Teton Glacier

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Minnesota Glacier

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Mittivakkat Glacier

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Mjell Glacier

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Moiry Glacier

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Moming Glacier

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Morrison Glacier

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Morteratsch Glacier

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Mount Warlow Glacier

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Mueller Glacier

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Muir Glacier

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Mulock Glacier

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Murchison Glacier

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Nabesna Glacier

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Nathorstbreen

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Nigardsbreen

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Nimitz Glacier

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Nimrod Glacier

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is a persistent body of natural ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving under its own weight.
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