alpine glacier
a glacier that is confined by surrounding mountain terrain; also called a mountain glacier.
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Muddy River Glacier carves its way through forested mountains near Frederick Sound in southeast Alaska. Typical of mountain glaciers, it is constrained on all sides by mountainous terrain.

U. S. Navy. Archived at the World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder, CO
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glaciers

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