Foreland glacier
Foreland glacier or Eisloben (also Piedmont glacier or Piedmont glacier from French pied , 'foot' and mont , 'mountain') are glacier tongues in the foreland of mountains that are not restricted by any topographical obstacles. Most of the Piedmont glaciers originate from a network of ice streams, as it was developed in the Alps during the Ice Age, more rarely also from a large plateau glacier (some praise the Vatnajökull in Iceland). The extensive ice mass is partly part of the glacier's nutrient zone. Examples of still existing foreland glaciers are the Malaspina glacier in the US state of Alaska as well as larger praises of Vatnajökull on Iceland. Historic foreland glaciers were found during the cold periods of the current ice age in the foothills of the Alps ( Rhone Glacier , Rhine glacier , Inn Glacier , Iller - Lech -Gletscher) whose tongue basin occupied by the large Alpine foothills lakes today.
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literature
- Frank Ahnert: Introduction to Geomorphology . 1st edition. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8252-8103-5 , p. 334 .