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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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