Why are there no piedmont glaciers to be fond in Anchorage Alaska?
The geography of the Anchroage area won’t support a piedmont glacier. This glacier (the piedmont glacier) is characterized by large stagnant ice sheets where a glacier or glaciers “doesn’t/don’t have anywhere to go” for lack of an outlet. All the areas around Anchroage, Alaska slope down to the sea. There is no place for the ice of a piedmont glacier to “build up” for lack of a way to “break out” or to “get stopped” to form this glacier.
