Glacier View
Although glaciers are often described as flowing rivers of ice, they are more than just ice. They are made up of snow, ice, and rock that build up over years in mountains where more snow falls than melts. Gravity pulls these often very large, heavy, and deep frozen slabs down slopes from the mountains where they form. Alaska has about 100,000 glaciers. Only about 650 of them have been named.
Glacier View
Although glaciers are often described as flowing rivers of ice, they are more than just ice. They are made up of snow, ice, and rock that build up over years in mountains where more snow falls than melts. Gravity pulls these often very large, heavy, and deep frozen slabs down slopes from the mountains where they form. Alaska has about 100,000 glaciers. Only about 650 of them have been named.