Glacier Picture Gallery
Arete—Jagged cirque-top ridges.
Bergschrund—The true top of a valley glacier.
Cirque—Glaciers scoop these rounded valleys out of mountain sides.
Cirque Glacier—Small glaciers in cirques.
Erratic Boulder—Big stones out of place in Central Park and Alaska.
Esker—An example from northern Manitoba.
Fjord—Drowned glacial valleys.
Glacial Grooves and Polish—Ice-age marks in Manhattan's Central Park.
Hanging Glacier—Small ice flows cling to steep slopes.
Horn—A mountain deeply sculpted by glaciers.
Iceberg—Large floating chunk of glacier ice.
Ice Cave—Carved by a subglacial stream.
Icefall—The glacial analog of a waterfall.
Ice Field—An upland expanse of ice and snow.
Jökulhlaup—A glacial outburst flood.
Kettle—A hole in the ground once filled with ice.
Lateral Moraine—Sediment piled alongside a glacier.
Medial Moraine—Sediment streaks down a glacier's back.
Outwash Plain—Also known as a sandur.
Piedmont Glacier—A spreading lobe of ice on flat ground.
Roche Moutonnee—Sheepshaped bedrock knobs.
Rock Flour—Typical in glacial streams and sediment.
Rock Glacier—A rocky cousin of ice glaciers.
Serac—Tall ice peaks on a glacier.
Terminal Moraine—A dirt pile at the glacier's snout.
Valley Glacier—A glacier in the mountains.
Other picture galleries:
Fossil Pictures
Landform Pictures
Mineral Pictures
Rock Pictures
Geologic Features and Processes Pictures
Geology and Society Pictures
Free Geologic Wallpaper Pictures
