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mountain glacier

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mountain glacier [′mau̇nt·ən ′glā·shər]
(hydrology)
alpine glacier


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While the yearly loss of the mountain glaciers is most apparent from the retreat of their margins, Thompson said an equally troubling effect is the thinning of the ice fields from the surface.
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As Antarctica cooled even further, mountain glaciers grew, swept downslope and coalesced in valleys that had been previously carved by major rivers and their tributaries, the team reports.
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New Zealand's mountain glaciers have fluctuated frequently over the last 7,000 years, and glacial advances have become slightly smaller through time," said Joerg Schaefer, lead author of the paper and a geochemist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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