| A substantial recessional moraine accumulated at the junction of the three tributary glaciers at this position. |
| Snow will often accumulate and can eventually compact to form glaciers and ice caps. |
| The glaciers of the Himalayas, which feed the great rivers watering the farmland keeping Asia alive, are disappearing. |
| The fog cleared to reveal gleaming glaciers and maritime alps as we made a cautious sun-soothed entry into the sound itself. |
| Together, the Pleistocene and Holocene make up the Quaternary period, marked by waxing and waning of polar glaciers. |
| The late renaissance had little experience of pack-ice and polar seas, but they did have plenty of glaciers in the alps. |
