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Glacier features
Bodies or streams of ice moving outward and downslope from an area of accumulation; areas of relatively permanent snow or ice on the top or side of a mountain or mountainous area. [USGS Feature Class Definitions <http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/feature_class.htm>]
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Benchmark glaciers [New Window]
Summary of the USGS benchmark glacier program to intensively monitor climate, glacier motion, glacier mass balance, glacier geometry, and stream runoff at three glacier basins, Gulkana and Wolverine in Alaska and South Cascade in Washington.
Glaciers and glaciations - ice sheets, glacial lakes, tuyas - jökulhlaups and glacial hazards [New Window]
Links to background information on glaciers, glacier hazards, ice sheets and glaciations, glacial lakes, specific glaciers, terminology, bibliographies, and related useful links.
Water science for schools: glaciers and icecaps, storehouses of fresh water [New Window]
Brief information for students on glaciers and icecaps from Water Science for Schools with link to more glacial information by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
Glacier effects of the M7.9 Denali fault earthquake of November 3, 2002 [New Window]
Description and photos documenting offsets and 260 km rupture in the Denali glacier in central Alaska after the November 3, 2002 earthquake, the 9th largest earthquake in the United States in the last 200 years.
Glossary of glacier terminology: a glossary providing the vocabulary necessary to understand the modern glacier environment. [New Window]
An illustrated glossary of terms relating to modern glaciers and glacial landforms based mainly on Alaskan examples.
Glossary of selected glacier and related terminology [New Window]
Dictionary of terms associated with glaciology with brief definitions.


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