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    By, Parker Collard

    by Mark Campbell on August 21, 2012 -http://blog.unitrends.com/amazon-glacier-and-the-future-of-backup-and-archiving-inthe-cloud/

    Glacier-

    a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.

    Ice Sheets - Found only in Antarctica and Greenland, ice sheets are

    enormous continental masses of glacial ice and snow expanding over 50,000 square kilometers.

    Ice Shelves - Ice shelves occur when ice sheets extend over the sea, and
    float on the water. In thickness they range from a few hundred meters to over 1000 meters. Ice shelves surround most of the Antarctic continent.

    Ice Caps - Ice caps are miniature ice sheets, covering less than 50,000 square Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers - Ice streams are channelized
    glaciers that flow more rapidly than the surrounding body of ice.

    kilometers. They form primarily in polar and sub-polar regions that are relatively flat and high in elevation.

    Ice Fields -

    Ice fields are similar to ice caps, except that their flow is influenced by the underlying topography, and they are typically smaller than ice caps.

    Mountain Glaciers - These glaciers develop in high mountainous

    regions, often flowing out of icefields that span several peaks or even a mountain range.

    Valley Glaciers - Commonly originating from mountain glaciers or ice


    fields, these glaciers spill down valleys, looking much like giant tongues.

    Piedmont Glaciers - Piedmont glaciers occur when steep valley

    glaciers spill into relatively flat plains, where they spread out into bulb-like lobes.

    Cirque Glaciers - Cirque Glaciers are named for the bowl-like hollows
    they occupy, which are called cirques. Typically, they are found high on mountainsides and tend to be wide rather than long.

    Hanging Glaciers - Also called ice aprons, these glaciers cling to

    steep mountainsides. Like cirque glaciers, they are wider than they are long.

    Tidewater Glaciers - As the name implies, these are valley glaciers


    that flow far enough to reach out into the sea. When they break off they make ice bergs.

    Glaciers are usually blue because as the ice crystals grow, they normally push out the air and they absorb most light and later on reflect the short-wave-length blue light. This color is usually as a result of the absorption of red and yellow light.

    Glaciers form where the accumulation of snow and ice over the years build up and are compacted to where and glaciers are made.

    Anonymous

    The Perito Moreno Glacier is a glacier located in the Los Glaciares National Park in southwest Santa Cruz province, Argentina. It is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia.

    The Franz Josef is a 12 km long glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.

    Anonymous, . N.p.. Web. 13 Nov 2013. <http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/questions/types.html >. http://www.ask.com/question/why-are-glaciers-blue . N.p.. Web. 19 Nov 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier>. https://www.google.com/#q=famous+glaciers . N.p.. Web. 19 Nov 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier>.

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