What happens when a river flows into a glacier?

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Just a hypothetical that caught my interest; What would happen if a river coming down, say, a mountain, traveled far enough to one of the poles that it hits a glacier? Would its momentum just disperse and turn into a pond until the water finds somewhere else to go? Would the water carve into the glacier, like those pictures of ice tunnels you can find on google?

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dude that sounds super interesting. i think the river would melt some ice and maybe create those cool tunnels. it’s like nature’s own water park.

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