Retreating Glacier with Braided Stream in Alaska - Encircle Photos

16 Retreating Glacier with Braided Stream in Alaska

This small glacier formed within a cirque basin high on mountainside. As it retreats, it is exposing layers of moraine or sediment above its terminus and below its former flow. The brown, muddy waterfall is known as a braided stream because of its numerous branches that separate and then reunite before emptying into Glacier Bay.

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Retreating Glacier with Braided Stream in Alaska

Glacier Bay, Alaska

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