Ice tongue
An ice tongue is a long and narrow sheet of ice projecting out from the coastline. An ice tongue forms when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into the ocean or a lake.
References
- "Erebus Ice Tongue". NASA Earth Observatory. Retrieved 2006-05-19.
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