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GLACIER
TYPES
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piedmont glaciers
icefields
hanging glaciers
tidewater glaciers
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rock glaciers
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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

Retreating Glaciers

Franz Josef Glacier, 1951

Franz Josef Glacier, located in New Zealand, retreated dramatically in the twentieth century. This photograph, taken in 1951, is the first of a series which documents the glacier's retreat over the subsequent 14 years.

(Unattributed photograph at the World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder)