Glacier snout at the foot of mountains. The glacier snout, or terminus, is the terminal end of a glacier. Ice from the glacier breaks off here, formin

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Glacier snout at the foot of mountains. The glacier snout, or terminus, is the terminal end of a glacier. Ice from the glacier breaks off here, forming icebergs in the glacial lake below. This is the Fjallsjokull glacier and Breidarlon Lake in Iceland.

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