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Glacier foreland beneath the Langgletscher in Switzerland
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The region between the current leading edge of the glacier and the moraines of latest maximum is called glacier foreland or glacier forefield. In the Alps this maximum was in 1850 and since then the region has become ice free due to deglaciation. Because of this relative recent development of vegetation and morphodynamic the glacier foreland differs considerably from the surrounding landscape.

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Glacier foreland

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between the current leading edge of the glacier and the moraines of latest maximum is called glacier foreland or glacier forefield. In the Alps this maximum...

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Trift Glacier Foreland

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The Trift glacier foreland in the Swiss canton of Bern comprises a wide variety of geomorphological forms and habitats for pioneers and plant communities...

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Foreland

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in front of something Foreland basin, in geology, the zone that receives sediment from an adjacent mountain chain Glacier foreland, the area between the...

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Martin Peninsula

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267°S 113.950°W / -74.267; -113.950. A glacier flowing east-northeast from Martin Peninsula between Slichter Foreland and Smythe Shoulder into Dotson Ice...

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Glossary of landforms

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terrain Glacier – Persistent body of ice that is moving under its own weight Glacier cave – Cave formed within the ice of a glacier Glacier foreland – The...

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Tapsell Foreland

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Inlet. The Kirkby Glacier flows north past its west end. Glaciers rising on the foreland include O'Hara Glacier and Fortenberry Glacier, which flow north...

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Barnett Glacier

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east along the south side of Tapsell Foreland into Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Barnett Glacier was mapped by the United States Geological...

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Siniff Bay

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bays. The Jackson Glacier drains north from the McDonald Heights into Siniff Bay. Hanessian Foreland is to the west of the glacier and extends along the...

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Umbilicaria torrefacta

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A study conducted over a 240-year chronosequence in the foreland of the Hellstugubreen glacier in Jotunheimen National Park, Norway, found that the initial...

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Austrian Space Forum

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simulation: Lichenometry and Schmidt hammer tests in the Kaunertal glacier foreland (Ötztal Alps) during the AMADEE-15 Mars Mission Simulation C. Markovski...

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Allogenic succession

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eventually rising to higher levels from continued seawater exposure.   Glacier forelands are another example of ecosystems that form from autogenic but also...

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Inn Glacier

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territory it pushed its ice front far into the Bavarian Alpine Foreland. The Inn Glacier attained its greatest thickness and extent during the Riss glaciation...

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Pinus wallichiana

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long with a 20–30 mm wing. Typical habitats are mountain screes and glacier forelands, but it will also form old-growth forests as the primary species or...

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Terminal moraine

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Moraine Formation Processes and Geomorphology of Glacier Forelands at the Selected Outlet Glaciers of Jostedalsbreen, South Norway", Landscapes and Landforms...

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Roseomonas arctica

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light red-colored bacteria. It was first isolated from soil in the glacier foreland of Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard, Norway. The species name refers to the Arctic...

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Glacial series

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the Alps and advanced into the Alpine Foreland. There they formed vast foreland glaciers. In this Alpine Foreland glaciation, Penck identified a number...

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Bourletiella hortensis

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Pedersen, Arne (August 2015). "Food Choice of Invertebrates During Early Glacier Foreland Succession". Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 47 (3): 561–572...

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Getz Ice Shelf

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ice sheet is fed by glaciers that include, from west to east, Johnson Glacier, Venzke Glacier, Berry Glacier and DeVicq Glacier. The ice shelf westward...

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Queen Margrethe II Land

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Norwegian hunting station was built at the southern end of Hochstetter Foreland, on the western shore of Peters Bay, by the mouth of Ardencaple Fjord....

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Alpentor

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entire glacier forced its way through to the Alpine Foreland from the Alps during the ice age. During the Würm glaciation, where several glaciers from different...

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Last Glacial Period

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smaller ice caps and mostly confined to valley glaciers, sending glacial lobes into the Alpine foreland. Local ice fields or small ice sheets could be...

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Tian Shan

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mountain foreland near Alma Ata. The glacial glaciers from the Kungey Alatau also calved into Lake Issyk Kul, with the Ak-Sai valley glacier developing...

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Riss glaciation

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resulted in glaciers advancing in several phases far into the Alpine Foreland, further than all other known ice sheet advances, and the main glaciers had established...

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Lac de la Bayenna

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at 2,546 m (8,353 ft) west of Lac de Châteaupré above the glacier forelands of Moiry Glacier. Its outlet flows into the Gougra river after about 800 m...

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Alps

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underwent erosion, a layer of marine flysch sediments was deposited in the foreland basin, and the sediments became involved in younger folds as the orogeny...

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Simplocaria metallica

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Pedersen, Arne (2015-08-01). "Food Choice of Invertebrates During Early Glacier Foreland Succession". Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 47 (3): 561–572...

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Hall Land

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peninsula is attached to the mainland and its ice cap. The unglaciated Polaris Foreland lies in the northernmost part of Hall Land beyond the Haug Range. 1,094...

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Lecideaceae

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Schmidt Hammer r-values on recently exposed rock surfaces: Storbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, Norway". Geografiska Annaler. 90 (4): 287–297. doi:10...

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Andes

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an extensional back-arc basin in the Mesozoic to being a compressional foreland basin in the Cenozoic. Tectonic forces above the subduction zone along...

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