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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

Chatter Marks

Group of chatter marks, Mt. Sirius, Antarctica, 1986

Group of chatter marks, Mt. Sirius, Antarctica. Note the pen towards the upper, center of the photo for scale comparision.

(Source: Tom Lowell's Glacier Image Database, University of Cincinnati.)