Glaciers

thumb|upright=1.2|Glacier of the Geikie Plateau in Greenland thumb|upright=1.2|The Taschachferner in the Ötztal Alps in [[Austria. The mountain to the left is the Wildspitze (3.768 m), second highest in Austria]] thumb|upright=1.2|With 7,253 known glaciers, Pakistan contains more glaciers than any other country on Earth outside the polar regions. At in length, the pictured [[Baltoro Glacier is the fifth longest alpine glacier in the world.]] A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of natural ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulat

thumb|right|Lateral moraine on a glacier joining the [[Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Swiss Alps. The moraine is the high bank of debris in the top left hand quarter of the image.]] thumb|Glaciologist Erin Pettit in Antarctica, 2016|upright

long, narrow sheet of ice projecting from a coastline

region of fast-moving ice within an ice sheet

the end of a glacier at any given point in time

breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier

form of glacier grafting technique that creates artificial glaciers, used for storing water in the form of conical shaped ice heap

thumb|right|200px|A layer of cryoconite on the surface of a glacier. Cryoconite is powdery windblown dust made of a combination of small rock particles, soot and microbes which is deposited and builds up on snow, glaciers, or ice caps. The darkening, especially from small amounts of soot, absorbs solar radiation melting the snow or ice beneath the deposit, and sometimes creating a cryoconite hole. Cryoconite may contain dust from far away continental deserts or farmland, particles from volcanic eruptions or power plant emissions, and soot. It was first described and named by Nils A. E. Nordens

mountains in Peru

extraterrestrial bodies of ice

Free-moving globular moss colonies found on and near glaciers

geographic region which made possible the survival of flora and fauna in times of ice ages and allowed for post-glacial re-colonization

seismological phenomenon, caused by calving outlet glaciers of continental ice shields

sediment deposited by a glacial lake

Body of liquid water that flows down a channel formed by a glacier

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