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Cirque Glacier


U.S. Geological Survey photo by Bruce Molnia (fair use policy)

A cirque is a rock landform that may or may not have active ice in it, but when it does the ice is called a cirque glacier. This cirque, in the Fairweather Range of southeastern Alaska, contains a cirque glacier that feeds into a larger one below.

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