See a glacier spread beyond the mountains.

Alaska’s Malaspina Glacier illustrates a piedmont glacier: ice emerges from mountain valleys onto open lowlands. Freed from the valleys’ lateral constraints, it spreads into broad lobes across the landscape.

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