branched-valley glacier
glacier that has one or more tributary glaciers that flow into it; distinguished from a simple valley glacier that has only a single tributary glacier.
Image
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.
United States Geological Survey. Archived at the World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder, CO
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glaciers