Image of a Glacier

This is an image of a Glacier making its way down the mountain. I got this image from a site called Omega which is the Development of Operational Monitoring System for European Glacial Areas

What is a Glacier?

A Glacier is commonly Known as a Frozen river made out of ice and snow. This is the easy way of putting it.
The more difficult way is a mass of land ice, formed by the further recrystallization of firn, flowing continuously from higher to lower elevations.
This term covers all such ice accumulations from the extensive continental glacier to tiny snowdrift glaciers

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A multiyear surplus accumulation of snowfall in excess of snow melt on land and resulting in a mass of ice at least 0.1 km 2 in area that shows some evidence of movement in response to gravity. A glacier may terminate on land or in water
As you can see there are many different explanations for the Glacier which may confuse you but i assure you that they are all quite simple.

Introduction

Hello and welcome to the wonderful cold world of "Glaciers"!!! This is my Enviormentional studies Project and i will be up dating this blog for the next five weeks. Durning these weeks i will be posting new and intresting facts about glaciers! Such as how they were formed,different types of glaciers, what effects that they have on the earths surface and how they shape the earth,how they transport materials such as rocks to other areas and also many other intresting and gripping facts!!I will also include some tourist attractions and areas which you can visit yourself and see just how intresting they can be!!!!