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Outlet glaciers draining into fjords in the north and northeast of Greenland commonly terminate in a floating ice tongue of variable length, with three glaciers terminating in an ice tongue > 10 km (Hill et al., 2017).
Large calving events of the PG [Petermann Glacier] floating ice tongue in 2010 and 2012 (Johannessen et al., 2013; Rückamp et al., 2019) were associated with a 10 % acceleration of the glacier (Rückamp et al., 2019).

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Ice tongue (Wikipedia) An ice tongue or glacier tongue exists when there is a narrow floating part of a glacier that extends out into a body of water beyond the glacier’s lowest contact with the Earth’s crust. An ice tongue forms when a glacier that is confined by a valley moves very rapidly out into a lake or ocean, relative to other ice along the coastline. When such ice surges past adjacent coastal ice, the boundary experiences physical forces described as “shearing”.