Resurrection Bay - Glaciers 7-31-2010

On the east side of the bay there are three Alpine glaciers. These are in high valleys or troughs which they helped form. They don't reach the water.


Around a point in the bay on the west side is Bear Glacier, a tidewater glacier that terminates in water. The dark line in front of the glacier is its terminal moraine, rocks left when the glacier began to retreat, the face is now in Bear Glacier Lake, formed by the moraine. The dark line on the glacier is thick sedimentation. Google "Bear Glacier" for some satellite photos