Tongue

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Term: Tongue
Definition: (1) The lower, elongate part of a valley glacier or outlet glacier. (2) A floating extension of a glacier or ice stream, laterally unconfined but markedly longer than wide.
GCW IHPGlacierMassBalance
Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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