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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
All Glaciers and Ice Formations
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Columbia Glacier (Washington)

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Columbia Icefield

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Comox Glacier

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Comrie Glacier

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Concordia (Karakoram)

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Cook Ice Cap

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Cool Glacier

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Corbassiere Glacier

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Coronation Glacier

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Cowlitz Glacier

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Crowfoot Glacier

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Cumpston Glacier

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Dachstein Glacier

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Dålk Glacier

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Dargomyzhsky Glacier

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Darwin Glacier (Antarctica)

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Daugaard-Jensen Glacier

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Davidson Glacier

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Dawson-Lambton Glacier

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De Haven Glacier

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Debeli Namet

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Deming Glacier

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Demorest Glacier

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Devdaraki

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Diablerets Glacier

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Dickson Glacier

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Dobbratz Glacier

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Dolra

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Domeyko Glacier

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Donjek Glacier

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Drama Glacier

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Drang-Drung Glacier

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Driscoll Glacier

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Drygalski Glacier (Antarctica)

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Drygalski Ice Tongue

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Dyngjujökull

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East Antarctic Ice Sheet

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Easton Glacier

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Edmunds Glacier

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Eiskar

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Eldorado Glacier

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Eldred Glacier

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Emmons Glacier

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Engilchek Glacier

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Erebus Glacier

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Erebus Glacier Tongue

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Evans Piedmont Glacier

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Exit Glacier

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Fairchild Glacier

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Fairweather Glacier

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Falkner Glacier

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Farmer Glacier

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Fee Glacier

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Fendorf Glacier

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Ferpècle Glacier

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Ferrar Glacier

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Fiescher Glacier

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Fiftyone Glacier

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Fimbul Ice Shelf

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Findel Glacier

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Fjard

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Fjord

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Flagstaff Glacier

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Flogeken Glacier

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Folgefonna

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Forbidden Glacier

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Forman Glacier

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Forno Glacier

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Fortuna Glacier

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Fourpeaked Glacier

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Fox Glacier

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Franca Glacier

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Franz Josef Glacier

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Frederikshåb Glacier

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Fremont Glacier (Washington)

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Frostisen

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Furtwängler Glacier

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Gabare Glacier

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Gangotri Glacier

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Gannett Glacier

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Geant Glacier

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Gergeti

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Gietro Glacier

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Gildea Glacier

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Gjegnalundsbreen

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Glacier

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Glacier Blanc

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Glacier Cave

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Glacier Noir

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Glenzer Glacier

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Glisan Glacier

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Godwin-Austen Glacier

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Gomukh

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Goodenough Glacier

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Gotchen Glacier

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Gotley Glacier

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Gough Glacier

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Gowan Glacier

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Grand Désert

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Grand Pacific Glacier

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1. Glacier (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationGlacier, lead section, definition sentence
Quote, Glacier, lead section, definition sentence
is a persistent body of natural ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving under its own weight.
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