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glacial arete and col

drumlin

valley glacier and medial moraines

drumlins

Glacial cirque and erratics

glacial cirque and glacier

glacial erratic

esker

fiords

Hanging glaciers

glacial horn

Iceberg formed by glacial calving

glacial kettles

Retreating glacier,melt water lake and terminal moraine

striations on bedrock

glacial polish on valley wall

glacial striations

glacial plucking of bedrock

terminal point of a glacier and end moraines

glacial grooves (Kelly’s Island)

ice cave and end moraine

outwash plain

kettle in an outwash plain

Cirque, tarn and moraines

Outwash plain and melt water lake

Retreating valley glacier, lateral moraine and outwash plain

eroded glacial till

End moraine of retreating glacier

End moraine

Medial moraines, end moraines and outwash plain

Greenland glacier and fiord

Lateral, end and remnant medial moraines

glacial till

kettles and lateral moraines

Lateral and end moraines of a retreating valley glacier

Hanging glacier, tarn, aretes, horns and cirques

blue ice

Constructed photo of an iceberg formed through “glacial calving”.

Juno (Alaska) icefield with medial moraines and ogives

glacial flour entering a stream

seracs formed between crevasses

Glacial valley, lateral and medial moraines moraines

Hanging glacier entering larger valley crevasses