Landforms such as the Athabasca
Glacier are products of snow having covered the area and later been frozen to ice. The term
recessional moraine may be applied to the Glacier as it recedes, the ice
melting to flow into the river below. Although our present heated climate, due
to global warming, is certainly not ideal for the endurance of glaciers such as
the Athabasca, these mountain glaciers continue to survive although mass from
the structures is lost at an ever growing rate. Should things continue at this rate, greenhouse gasses heating ever more the planet, we
could very well be looking at the iceless remains of the glacier in future.
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