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GLACIER
TYPES
retreating glaciers
piedmont glaciers
icefields
hanging glaciers
tidewater glaciers
surging glaciers
rock glaciers
mountain glaciers
ice caps

GLACIER FEATURES
glacier terminus
ice caves
icefall
crevasses
ogives

GLACIAL LANDFORMS
glacial grooves and striations
chatter marks
glacial trough
glacial erratic
moraines
aretes, horns, and cirques
drumlins

Piedmont Glacier

Piedmont glacier on Bylot Island, Canada

Glacier of the ice cap on byam Martin Mountains.

Sitauted near Navy Board Inlet, which divides Baffin and Bylot Islands, this glacier has an expanded foot, characteristic of a piedmont glacier, where it widens onto a lowland. The 3-km wide terminus shows several medial moraines which are the combination of lateral moraines from adjacent tributary glaciers.
(Source: Natural Resources Canada. Copyright Terrain Sciences Division, Geological Survey of Canada.)