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Types of Glaciers: Tidewater Glacier, Holgate Glacier

two orange clad people stand on a small isle in a bay while looking at a icy wall nestled between cliff walls

The Holgate Glacier (Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska) drains the Harding Ice Field, flowing into Aialik Bay. Like many tidewater glaciers, it loses more of its mass by the process known as "calving," when a glacier sheds icebergs into a body of water at its toe.

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08/02/2005

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