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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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The glaciers are retreating.
Glaciers and icing caps are melting and the north pole is crumbling away alarmingly fast.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Glaciers tumbled from the flanks of the mountains, alternating with steep scree slopes and precipitous cliffs.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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As cirque glaciers grow larger they may spread into valleys and flow down the valleys as valley glaciers.
Alpine glaciers are narrow tongues of ice that fill valleys in mountainous regions and flow down hill in their channels much like rivers.
Glaciers occur on the North Island on Mount Ruapehu and on the South Island along the crest of the Southern Alps from the Spenser Mountains in the north to southern Fiordland in the south.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Glaciers of the valleys are situated on the diametrical spurs of low altitude.
The glaciers are easily accessed for exploration either by ground or air, making glacier walking an extremely popular activity amongst New Zealand citizens and a much loved passion of overseas visitors.
Hanging glaciers are common in the Alps, where they often cause avalanches due to the steep inclines they occupy.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Glaciers as proxy indicators of climatic change with specific emphasis on the interpretation of physical and chemical time series collected from glaciers.
Glaciers respond to such warming or cooling periods by decreasing or increasing in size, which in turn causes sea level to rise or fall.
Glaciers respond to such warming or cooling periods by decreasing or increasing in size, thereby causing sea level to rise or fall.
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