This work is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM program within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (DUE-1245025).

ANATOMY OF A TIDEWATER GLACIER

Unit 4: supplemental

TIDEWATER GLACIERS END IN THE OCEAN (SATELLITE VIEW)

Draining ice from the ice sheet to the ocean. The ice here is almost a mile thick.

Glacier terminus (boundary between glacier ice and ocean)

mélange (ocean water covered with sea ice and icebergs)

mountains

mountains

TIDEWATER GLACIERS END IN THE OCEAN (CROSS-SECTION)