(a) What is a glacier (b) Describe the two types of glaciers (c) Give the two physical conditions required for the formation of glaciers.

      

(a) What is a glacier
(b) Describe the two types of glaciers
(c) Give the two physical conditions required for the formation of glaciers.

  

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Faith
A glacier is a mass of ice of limited width moving outward from a region of accumulation.

Valley glaciers are streams of ice that begin in small hollows in glaciated mountains or upland hollows.
Piedmont glaciers is formed when several valley glaciers coalesce forming a very large glacier

The average amount of snow fall in winter should be greater than the ablation in summer
The snow may be delivered by avalanches from a nearby slope.
Faimus answered the question on March 13, 2018 at 12:18


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