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a river that forgot how to hurry and carved continents instead
means A slow-moving mass of dense ice formed from compacted snow that creeps over land under its own weight.
from From French 'glacier,' from 'glace' meaning ice, which traces back to Latin 'glacies' (ice) — a cousin of 'glacial' and even of words like 'congeal.' The term spread through the Alps, where French-speaking mountaineers and naturalists put names to these grinding ice rivers, and English borrowed it in the 1700s.
- slow mover
- creeps inches to feet per day
- oldest ice
- some Antarctic ice is over a million years old
- trapped air
- bubbles hold breathable ancient atmosphere
- blue glow
- dense ice absorbs every color but blue
- freshwater bank
- holds nearly 70 percent of Earth's fresh water
perito moreno glacier — argentina's 250 km² advancing glacier that calves icebergs into lake argentino
athabasca glacier — canadian glacier in banff that has retreated 1.5 km since 1844
siachen glacier — 47 km long glacier in karakoram where india and pakistan have disputed territory since 1949