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what is a glacier?

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 A slowly moving mass ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles is glaciers.It may also be called permanently frozen water.

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Glaciers are huge masses of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted and recrystallized snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting and sublimation. They can either descend from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or move outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers. They are like a great river of ice, slowly moving and crushing rock underneath it, shaping the landscape.
 
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