alpine glacier

alpine glacier
    a) Any glacier in a mountain range except an ice cap or ice sheet. It usually originates in a cirque and may flow down into a valley previously carved by a stream.
   Compare: continental glacier.
   GG.
    b) (not preferred - refer to U-shaped valley): (relict)
   landforms or sediments formed, modified or deposited by a glacier in or on mountains or high hills that has since melted away.
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Glossary of landform and geologic terms. 2013.

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