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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 191. Chapters: Ice age, Snowball Earth, Moraine, Fjord, Finger Lakes, Drumlin, Till, Retreat of glaciers since 1850, Tunnel valley, Giant current ripples, History of the Rove Formation, Post-glacial rebound, Last glacial period, Glacier mass balance, Quaternary glaciation, Overdeepening, Tidewater glacier cycle, Ice sheet dynamics, Polar ice packs, Ice core brittle zone, Glacial history of Minnesota, Frost heaving, Jökulhlaup, Loess, Core sample, Ice lens, Sea ice, Eemian, Blood Falls, Timeline of glaciation, Antarctic ice sheet, Palsa, Moses Coulee, Last Glacial Maximum, Cryogenian, Pre-Illinoian, Sangamonian, Cirque, Snow patches in Scotland, Marine Isotopic Stage 11, Kansan glaciation, Pingo, Frazil ice, Sandur, Periglacial, Kettle, Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field, Yoldia Sea, Dropstone, Kankakee Outwash Plain, Surge, Sims Corner Eskers and Kames, Rock glacier, Glacitectonism, Karoo Ice Age, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Glacial motion, Polynya, Wolstonian Stage, Irish Sea Glacier, Mauna Kea Ice Age Reserve, Ogive, Laurentide ice sheet, Ledoyom, Penitentes, Rock flour, Interglacial, Meltwater pulse 1A, Crevasse, Rogen moraine, Beestonian stage, Aufeis, Wisconsinan glaciation, Shelf ice, Drift ice, Bull Lake glaciation, Giant's kettle, Pyramidal peak, Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, Glacier growing, Icefall, Glacier morphology, Moulin, Forebulge, Starvation, Radioglaciology, Frost line, Glacier terminus, Roche moutonnée, Marine isotope stage, International Association of Cryospheric Sciences, GLIMPSE Project, Bramertonian Stage, Pastonian Stage, Boulder clay, Nunatak, Big Four Ice Caves, Glacial earthquake, Tarn, Glacier ice accumulation, Glacier cave, Serac, Pre-Pastonian Stage, West Siberian Glacial Lake, Boulder Park, Holocene glacial retreat, Blue ice, U-shaped valley, Paraglacial, Firn, Fluvioglacial landform, Crag and tail, Huronian glaciation, Bergschrund, Basal sliding, Lake Connecticut, Ice sheet model, Abrasion, Push moraine, Thaw depth, Ribbon lake, World Glacier Monitoring Service, Glacial striation, Fast ice, Moraine-dammed lake, Washboard moraine, Flandrian interglacial, Veiki moraine, Snow bridge, Cyclopean Stairs, Plucking, Subglacial channel, Lake Komi, Névé, Pressure ridge, Ablation zone, Korshov, Paradise Ice Caves, Chatter mark, Glacial polish, Stefan's equation, Iceway, Ice scour, Hanging glacier, Cirque glacier, Seligman Crystal, Randkluft, Kame delta, Vijay Kumar Raina, Glacial boundary, Accumulation zone, Ice tongue, Isostatic depression, Giebichenstein, Vestfoldraet, Subglacial stream, Pressure melting point, Fluvio-glacial, International Glaciological Society, Dead-ice, Glacier foreland, Lithalsa, Headwall, Till plain, Fjard, Vagabond, Ice divide, Andean-Saharan glaciation, Ventisquero, Morainic drift. Excerpt: The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and in the longer term, the level of the oceans. Studied by glaciologists, the temporal coincidence of glacier retreat with the measured increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases is often cited as an evidentiary underpinning of global warming. Mid-latitude mountain ranges such as the Himalayas, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Cascade Range, and the southern Andes, as well as isolated tropical summits such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, are showing some of the large...