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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

Surging Glaciers

Hole-in-the-Wall Glacier, Alaska

A researcher investigates the terminus of Hole-in-the-Wall Glacier as it pushes debris in front of it and knocks over trees. This photograph dates from 1959, when the glacier had already been surging for nearly 20 years.

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