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Malaspina Glacier, Alaska
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The ice of a piedmont glacier spills from a steep valley onto a relatively flat plain, where it spreads out unconstrained like pancake batter. Elephant Foot Glacier in northeastern Greenland is an excellent example; it is particularly noted for its symmetry. But the largest piedmont glacier in North America (and possibly the world) is Malaspina in southeastern Alaska. On September 24, 2014, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired this image of Malaspina Glacier.
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Credit lineMalaspina Glacier, Alaska. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000507.
