The water depth initially increases as the glacier retreats from the shoal, causing every more rapid glacier flow, calving and retreat.

The glacier flow, i.e., the movement of the ice toward the sea, also increased, it was inadequate to keep pace with the break-up and expulsion of icebergs.

The location of a cleaver is often an important factor in the choice among routes for glacier flow.

They extend from the margin of the glacier and are concave up with respect to glacier flow, making an angle less than 45 with the margin.

Perhaps the most conspicuous consequence of glacier flow, icefalls occur where the glacier bed steepens and/or narrows.

John Frederick Nye (born 1923) is the first physicist to apply plasticity to understand glacier flow.

Another consequence of glacier flow is the transport of rock and debris abraded from its substrate and resultant landforms like cirques and moraines.

Thinning of the ice shelf reduces its buttressing effect on the glacier behind it, allowing glacier flow to speed up.

However, if and when these ice shelves melt sufficiently, they no longer impede glacier flow off the continent, so that glacier flow would accelerate.

Streams within or beneath a glacier flow in englacial or sub-glacial tunnels.