glacier

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These lakes are prone to failing because they are precariously dammed by walls made of frozen earth, rocks and ice created by the movement of a glacier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Over the next six decades, as the glacier retreated, the wedge expanded into a long finger, and the size of the lake grew twelvefold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The report said it was very likely that the glacier tongue would break off in the coming years, splitting the glacier in two.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

The isotope data also point to processes occurring beneath the glacier itself.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

The snow that lay over the glacier looked strange to him, as if it were a white grass growing up out of the ice.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin