Ice tongue

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Erebus Ice Tongue, coming off the Erebus glacier from Mt. Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica. The ice tongue is protruding into McMurdo Sound (frozen in this image).

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.

[edit] References

• Erebus Ice Tongue. NASA Earth Observatory. Retrieved on 2006-05-19.

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