What is a Glacier?

Work of Ice (Glacier)

• Although glaciers move slowly, they are extremely powerful. Like
huge bulldozers, they plow ahead year after year, crushing, grinding, and
toppling almost everything in their paths.
• As they move, glaciers erode or wear away the land beneath and around
them. Glaciers carry great amounts of soil, rock,
and clay eventually deposit them and while doing so form numerous
landforms.
 Glacial Lakes
• Glaciers carve out deep
hollows and as the ice melts
they get filled up with water
and become beautiful lakes in
the mountains called glacial
lake.
• For example- Himalayan
lakes
 Moraine
• The eroded material
carried by the glacier
such as rocks , sand and
silt gets deposited. These
deposits form glacial
moraines.
• Thus a moraine is
material left behind by a
moving glacier.