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valley glacier

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valley glacier [′val·ē ‚glā·shər]
(hydrology)
A glacier that flows down the walls of a mountain valley.


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A valley glacier forms high up on a mountainside that overlooks a valley.
That's only a little thicker than the rubble covering the Beacon Valley glacier in Antarctica, Head points out.
At 76 miles in length and with an ice face six miles wide, the spectacular Hubbard Glacier is the longest valley glacier in North America.
 
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