GROWING GLACIERS
May 12, 2022
2 minutes
WORDS SCOTT DUTFIELD
laciers are made up of compacted snow, rocks and sediment that over millennia has formed sheets of dense ice on land. Every one of the 98,000 glaciers that remain on Earth are the frozen leftovers of the last ice age, which occurred during the Pleistocene epoch between 2.6 million and 11,700 years ago. There are many different types of glaciers on Earth, such
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