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Glaciers are Moving Rivers of Ice

 

The speed at which glaciers flow varies within wide limits. Most glaciers move downward at the rate of less than 1 m (less than 3 ft) per day, but observation of the Black Rapids Glacier in Alaska, during 1936-37, showed that it was moving more than more than 100 ft per day. Click on the picture for more information.

The icy path shown here is a moraine formed by a glacier in Switzerland.