Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader

CHAPTER XXVII

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SUCCESSIVE GLACIER TYPES OF A WANING GLACIATION

Transition from the ice cap to the mountain glacier—The piedmont glacier—The expanded-foot glacier—The dendritic glacier—The radiating glacier—The horseshoe glacier—The inherited-basin glacier—Summary of types of mountain glacier—Reading references 383