Outlet glaciers
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Deutsch: Auslassgletscher
English: Outlet glaciers are channels of ice that flow out of an ice sheet, ice field or an ice cap, but are constrained on the sides with exposed bedrock. Outlet glaciers can be small glacier tongues, valley glaciers or broad piedmont glaciers.
See also: Glacier, Valley glaciers, Cirque glaciers, Piedmont glaciers, Ice sheets, Ice fields and Ice caps.
From the air
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Northern Patagonian Icefield with outlet glaciers
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Vatnajökull ice cap with outlet glaciers, Iceland
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Juneau Icefield with outlet glaciers, Alaska
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Breiðamerkurjökull
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Breiðamerkurjökull
Glacier tongues
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Outlet glacier of the Greenland ice sheet
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Outlet glacier of Öræfajökull, Iceland
Valley glaciers
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Austerdalsbreen, outlet glacier of Jostedalsbreen, Norway
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Ice flow of a Greenland valley glacier
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Bear Glacier, outlet glacier of the Harding Icefield, Alaska
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Eagle Glacier, outlet glacier of the Juneau Icefield, Alaska
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Outlet glaciers of the Northern Patagonian Icefield, Chile
Piedmont glaciers
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Eystri-Hagafellsjökull, Langjökull, Iceland
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Heinabergsjökull, Vatnajökull, Iceland