Glaciers are a mass of ice that are constantly moving very slowly and are formed from the accumulation of snow over the course of many years or centuries. Alpine glaciers, also called valley glaciers, flow downhill where ice builds up on the top of mountains and then travels downward into existing valleys and in general alpine glaciers are longer than they are wide. Easton glacier is located on Mount Baker of Washington state. Because ice is primarily responsible for erosion, this causes a lot of sediment to be deposited such as boulders, sand, and gravel. This type of glacier erodes bedrock and forms erosional landforms and they also erode from the base than the side so they transform V shaped valleys into broad valleys. I'm looking forward to visiting Mount Baker soon!
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