Ice Tongue
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
When a glacier reaches the ocean the ice might still keep growing on onto the water. This is called an ice tongue. It sticks out away from the land glacier into a thinner long piece of ice that floats on top of the water.
 
 
 

 


Ice Sheet

Ice Shelf

Ice Stream

Ice Field

Ice Cave

Ice Tongue

Crevasse

Ice Dam

 
 
 
 
 
 
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