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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

Tidewater Glacier

Lamplugh Glacier, 1941

Lamplugh Glacier shows the terminus of a typical tidewater glacier, calving small icebergs into Glacier Bay, Alaska. For scale, note the man standing on the rocks in the foreground (near the center of the photograph). This photograph taken in 1941.

(Source: W. O. Field photograph at the World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder)