Root Glacier

Photo by Alaska Geographic Society

What's a glacier? A glacier is a huge mass of many years of snow, ice, rock, sediment, and water. It originates on land and moves down slope under the influence of its own weight and gravity.

Glacier Bay


Photo by Stephen J. Kraseman

Each glacier is different in its own special way and each glacier has a different surrounding environment.

 

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