Glacier morphology

Foreland glaciers or ice lobes (also piedmont after French pied, foot ' and mont, mountain ') are restricted by no topographic obstacles glacier tongues in the foothills of mountains. Most come from a piedmont Eisstromnetz as it was glacially developed in the Alps, less commonly, of a large plateau glaciers (some praise of Vatnajökull in Iceland ). Of area, the vast mass of ice belongs partly to the accumulation area of the glacier. Examples of still existing foreland glaciers are the Malaspina Glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska and on Iceland greater praise of Vatnajökull. Historical glacier foreland were found during the cold periods of the current ice age in the foothills of the Alps ( Rhône glacier, glacier Rhine, Inn glacier, Iller -Lech Glacier ) whose tongue basins are now occupied by the great Alpine foothills lakes.