Photoglossary

Alphabetic list

A: Ablation; Ablation area/zone; Ablation cone (see dirt cone); Accumulation; Accumulation area; Areal scouring; Arête
B: Basal debris; Basal ice layer; Basal sliding; Bergschrund; Bergy bit; Boulder clay; Braided stream; Breached watershed
C: Calving; Chattermarks; Cirque; Cirque glacier; Col; Cold glacier; Cold ice; Conduit; Corrie; Crag-and-tail; Crescentic gouge; Crevasse; Crevasse trace (overview); Crevasse trace (detail); Cryoconite hole; Cwm
D: Dead ice; Dirt cone; Drift; Drumlin
E: End moraine (see terminal moraine); En echelon crevasses; Englacial conduit; Englacial debris; Englacial stream; Equilibrium line/zone; Erratic; Esker
F: Fault; Firn; Fjord (terrestrial view); Fjord (satellite image); Flow unit; Fluted moraine; Fluted lateral moraine; Fluted moraine; Fluted snow; Fold; Foliation
G: Glacial lake outburst flood (potential); Glacial lake outburst flood (aftereffect); Glacial trough; Glaciated; Glacier; Glacier advance; Glacier bed; Glacier flea; Glacier ice; Glacier karst; Glacier milk; Glacier recession; Glacier retreat (see glacier recession); Glacier sole; Glacier table; Glacier terminus; Glacier tongue; Glacierised; Groove
H: Hanging glacier; Hanging valley; Highland icefield; Horn; Hot-water drilling
I: Ice age; Ice apron; Ice avalanche; Ice cap; Ice cliff (ice wall); Ice-dammed lake; Ice sheet; Ice shelf; Ice ship; Ice stream; Ice tongue (see glacier tongue); Ice wall; Iceberg; Icefall; Internal deformation
J: Jökulhlaup
K: Kame terrace; Kettle (or kettlehole)
L: Lateral moraine; Little Ice Age; Longitudinal crevasse; Looped moraine
M: Mass balance; Medial moraine; Moraine; Moraine-dammed lake; Moulin; Nunatak; Nye channel
O: Ogives; Outlet glacier; Outwash plain (ground view); Outwash plain (aerial view)
P: P-forms; Pack ice; Piedmont glacier; Polythermal glacier; Portal (see glacier portal); Pothole; Proglacial lake; Push moraine
Q: Quiescent phase
R: Recessional moraine; Regelation ice; Regenerated (or rejuvenated glacier); Rock glacier; Riegel; Roche moutonnée; Rock basin; Run-out distance
S: Sandur; Sea ice; Sea loch; Sedimentary stratification; Sérac; Shear zone; Slush flow; Snout; Snow bridge; Snow swamp; Snowball Earth; Sole (see glacier sole); Stapi; Steam drilling; Strain; Striae or striations; Subglacial debris; Subglacial meltwater channel; Subglacial stream; Superimposed ice; Supraglacial debris; Supraglacial stream; Surge; Surge front
T: Tabular iceberg; Tarn; Temperate glacier; Temperate ice; Tephra; Terminal moraine; Thrust; Tidewater glacier; Till; Tillite; Toe (see snout; term used widely in North America); Trim-line; Transverse crevasse
U: Unconformity
V: Valley glacier
W: Whaleback; Wind scoop

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