- A
glacier (US: /ˈɡleɪʃər/; UK: /ˈɡlæsiə/ or /ˈɡleɪsiə/) is a
persistent body of
dense ice, a form of rock, that is
constantly moving downhill under its...
- 28 km2). The
remaining four
glaciers contain 29.41 km2 of
glacierized area;
among them
maximum contribution is
Bhirgupanth glacier (14.95 km2). NASA, in conjunction...
- (2,600 km2)
Siachen Glacier region in Kashmir. The
conflict was
started in 1984 by India's
successful capture of the
Siachen Glacier as part of Operation...
- The
Siachen Glacier is a
glacier located in the
eastern Karakoram range of the Himalayas, just
northeast of the
point NJ9842
where the Line of Control...
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Thwaites Glacier is an
unusually broad and vast
Antarctic glacier located east of
Mount Murphy, on the
Walgreen Coast of
Marie Byrd Land. It was initially...
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Glacier National Park is a
national park of the
United States located in
northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United
States border. The park encomp****es...
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Lillie Glacier (70°45′S 163°55′E / 70.750°S 163.917°E / -70.750; 163.917) is a
large glacier in Antarctica,
about 100
nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi)...
- The
Beardmore Glacier in
Antarctica is one of the
largest valley glaciers in the world,
being 200 km (125 mi) long and
having a
width of 40 km (25 mi)...
- the
Gangotri and
Yamunotri (Uttarakhand) and
Khumbu glaciers (Mount
Everest region),
Langtang glacier (Langtang region), and Zemu (Sikkim).
Owing to the...
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origins from
glacier activity. They are
formed when a
glacier erodes the land and then melts,
filling the
depression created by the
glacier. Near the end...
