Elephant Foot Glacier

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The Elephant Foot Glacier 🐘❄ in northeastern Greenland 🇬🇱 is a perfect example of a Piedmont Glacier. This type of glacier occur when steep valley glaciers spill into flat plains (here a fjord) where they spread out into bulb-like lobes or elephant foot. 📷 Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel-2A data (August 2016) #elephantfootglacier #elephantfoot #elephant #foot #glacier #greenland #piedmont #piedmontglacier #glaciology #satelliteimage #sentinel2 #copernicus #aerial #earth #earthfromspace #space #art #spaceart #instaspace

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