ALASKA: GRAND PACIFIC GLACIER

When the ship travels down Glacier Bay - at the end of the line are two glaciers.  You can likely recognize that one beautiful lump of ice mid photo as a glacier.  That is the beautiful Margerie Glacier.  However - there's another one there.

The Grand Pacific Glacier is covered with gravel and stones - more than 3 feet thick in many areas. Ya - I'm saying - its black.  It traveled through dirt, mud, landslides and rocks and its now a huge black mound of dirt. 

It is not an active glacier at the moment.  At the present site, it has a width of 2 miles, an average height of 150 feet and stretches 35 miles.  Margerie Glacier merged with this glacier in 1992. As the glacier started receding it got demerged from Margerie and only a small stream separates the two glaciers now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_Bay_Basin