A glacier cave is a
cave formed within the
ice of a
glacier. Glacier caves are often called
ice caves, but this term is properly used to describe bedrock caves that contain year-round ice. Most glacier caves are started by water running through or under the glacier. This water often originates on the glacier’s surface through melting, entering the ice at a
moulin and exiting at the glacier’s snout at base level. Heat transfer from the water can cause sufficient melting to create an air-filled cavity, sometimes aided by
solifluction. Air movement can then assist enlargement through melting in summer and
sublimation in winter.
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