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The Southern Patagonian Icefield of Chile and Argentina hosts several spectacular glaciersâincluding Grey Glacier located in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile.
Alpine glaciers begin high up in the mountains in bowl-shaped hollows called cirques. As the glacier grows, the ice slowly flows out of the cirque and into a valley. Several cirque glaciers can join together to form a single valley glacier. When valley glaciers flow out of the mountains, they spread out and join to form a piedmont glacier. The ice in contact with the valley walls contains a lot of rock and sediment which makes the ice dark grey or brown. When several cirque glaciers merge into a single valley or piedmont glacier the ice has a striped appearance. Zones of an alpine glacier: Click to view larger and see the legend. Truncated spur.