GLACIERS 



with the amount of snow which falls in successive years. 

 Like rivers, only more slowly, they are subject to the 



A TERMINAL MORAINE. 



changing conditions of atmospheric precipitation. 



Wherever glaciers are easily approached they form a 

 great attraction for the 

 summer tourist. The 

 glistening white snow 

 fields circled by the 

 green foliage of the 

 lower slopes, with the 

 glaciers descending in 

 long, white arms down 

 the valleys, pouring out 

 turbulent, milky-colored 

 streams from their lower 

 ends, and here and there 

 covered with bowlders 

 and long, dark lines of medial moraines, form a picture 



A BOWLDER BORNE ALONG ON TOP 



OP A GLACIER. 

 Notice its size as compared to the umbrella. 



