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Cold glacier

A glacier in which the bulk of the ice is below the pressure-melting point and therefore frozen to the bed.

Coalescing cold glaciers on the side of Taylor Valley in the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Photo M. J. Hambrey, 2001.

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