Long, narrow sheet of ice projecting from a coastline.
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Examples for "glacier tongue"
1The glacier tongue was still reaching over this rocky area.
2As far as I can see the open water extends to an east and west line which is a little short of the glacier tongue.
3The next day we sighted a long, low ice wall, and took it at first for a long glacier tongue stretching seaward from the land.
4The Mertz Glacier Tongue, at a point 50 miles from the land
5We reached Glacier Tongue about one and a half miles from the seaward end.
1All this time he'd heard the distant booming and grinding of this massive ice tongue.
2Coastal glaciers like this floating ice tongue tend to block the ice flow headed for the sea.
3Several more technical aid moves, and after two hours nerve-grinding climbing Mugs reached an ice tongue that led to easier ground.
4Massom said the shearing off of the ice tongue and the presence of the Mertz and B-9B icebergs could affect global ocean circulation.
5It also meant crossing the Drygalski Ice Tongue, an obstacle which bulked very formidably in their imaginations during the winter.
6The edges of these ice tongues are often as abrupt as if sliced away with a knife (Fig.
7As the ice tongues receded, the streams gradually dried; only the larger ones, fed far back in the range, are left to-day.
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