This view, on Canada's Baffin Island, shows a small, unnamed, mountain-top ice cap with an outlet glacier.  Note that the ice cap forms a gentle dome, flowing outward from a central high point with minimal funneling or direction by underlying topography.  The outlet glacier is confined to the narrow valley by the neighboring cliffs, and by lateral moraines deposited during a geologically recent period of glacier expansion.  During that expansion the outlet glacier reached the valley floor, pooled, and formed a piedmont lobe confined only by its own terminal moraine.  As the glacier retreated to its present position it left behind a moraine-dammed lake, ice covered in this view.
 

Thumbnail, photos, and annotated photos copyright W. W. Locke, 1998; all rights reserved.