the leader  
glaciers act much like a conveyor belt, carrying debris from the top of the glacier to the bottom where it deposits it in end moraines, thus the longer the terminus of the glacier stays in one place the more debris will accumulate in the moraine
  Baltoro Glacier, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan - 6 July 2007  
     
 
 
     
 

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