Glaciation
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Glacier Calving Ice, Banff NP, Canada
Glacier Calving Ice into tarn. Bow Glacier, Banff National Park, Canada. (ID Gl-23)
Download ImageMergerie Glacier, Alaska
Mergerie Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Glacier Bay National Park, SE Alaska. (Gl-07)
Download ImageCirques, horns, and aretes, Greenland
Aerial view of Cirques, cirque glaciers, horns, and aretes, Greenland (Gl-02)
Download ImageGlacier, cirque, and headwall, Yukon
Aerial view of Glacier, cirque, and headwall, Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada. (Gl-04)
Download ImageTributary and trunk glaciers, Greenland
Aerial view of tributary and trunk glaciers, Greenland. When the ice melts back it will leave behind a deep valley and hanging valley on the side. (Gl-03)
Download ImageGlacial valley, Glacier NP, Montana
Glacial valley and paternoster lakes, Glacier National Park, Montana. (30-1063)
Download ImageMeltwater streams, New Zealand
Meltwater streams running off of glacial ice. Rob Roy Glacier, New Zealand. (ID: 140129-68)
Download ImageFox Glacier, New Zealand
Crevasses on Fox Glacier, southern Alps, New Zealand. Note the stratification of the ice. (ID: 140131-81)
Download ImageGlacial outwash, New Zealand
Glacial outwash below Tasman Glacier. Near Mt. Cook/Aoraki, New Zealand. Boulders in foreground are part of the glacial moraine. (ID: 140128-88)
Download ImageAthabasca Glacier–in retreat, Canada
Front of Athabasca Glacier, Alberta, with a monument marking the front of the glacier in 2000. Jasper National Park. (120713-65)
Download ImageRock Glacier and Cirque (Pan)
Rock Glacier and Cirque, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (ID-120713-19pan)
Download ImageKettle pond and glacier, Canadian Rockies
Kettle pond, formed through the melting of a remnant ice block, on the terminal moraine of the Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park, Canada. (120709-113)
Download ImageGlacial Ice Fall, Canadian Rockies
Glacial ice fall and terminal moraine, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (ID: 120709-11)
Download ImageGlacially striated limestone and till on terminal moraine of Ath
Glacially striated limestone and till on terminal moraine of Athabasca Glacier, Alberta, Canada. (120709-109).
Download ImageLake Louise and Victoria Glacier
Lake Louise and Victoria Glacier, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (ID: (120708-4)
Download ImageGlacial Horn, Canadian Rockies (vertical)
Glacial horn–made of Cambrian Quartzite (sandstone) of the Gog Group. Deltaform Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. (ID: 120707-7)
Download ImageDrumlin, southern Alberta.
Drumlin, a depositional feature of continental ice sheets, southern Alberta, Canada. Ice flowed from left to right. (090709-13)
Download ImageGlacial outwash, Alberta, Canada
Glacial outwash below Athabasca Glacier. Athabasca River in Jasper National Park, Alberta (120709-123)
Download ImageGlacial Cirques, Colorado
Ice-sculpted Upper Glacier Gorge, a glacial cirque in Colorado. This photo shows a tarn, two cirques and two aretes. The peak on the left, the Spearhead, is the end of one arete, the other is the sunlit ridge in the right background. (Image ID# 140809-94)
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