Monday, August 3, 2015

Traveling through glaciers

On Saturday, we traveled through glaciers and Icefields. A glacier is "a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles". 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier

We also saw a huge ice field. "Icefield's are expanses of ice similar to ice caps, only smaller, usually less than 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 square miles) in area. An Icefield's flow is also more strongly influenced by the underlying mountains and topography"
https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/gallery/icefields.html. When we were leaving there was supposed to be a bear but I did not see it.


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