Glacier Types
Tidewater glaciers
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Taku Glacier, Alaska, 1929
Grand Pacific Glacier, Glacier Bay, Alaska, 1931
Outlet glaciers, Royal Society Fiord, Northeast Baffin Island, Canada
Holgate Glacier, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
In this photograph from 1969, small glaciers flow into the larger Columbia Glacier from mountain valleys on both sides. Columbia Glacier flows out of the Chugach Mountains into Columbia Bay, Alaska.
—Source: United States Geological
Survey photograph at the World
Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder
Lamplugh Glacier shows the terminus of a typical tidewater glacier, calving small icebergs into Glacier Bay, Alaska. For scale, note the man standing on the rocks in the foreground (near the center of the photograph. This photograph taken in 1941.
—Source: W. O. Field photograph at the World Data Center for Glaciology, University of Colorado, Boulder.
