Overview

Ice-marginal features form an important group of glacial features, in that they are widely used to reconstruct the extent of past ice masses. The type and character of these deposits also often bear evidence of factors such as the thermal regime and dynamic behavior of the glacier or ice sheet. The ice-marginal and ice-contact features treated in this chapter are formed at the margins of glaciers, ice streams or ice sheets, either at the front, or along the edges of these ice masses. Ice-contact features formed subglacially are treated in the preceeding Chapter 1, “Subglacial features”.