The left-most hill with the ice-ground rounded top has a face towards the glacier ground off to produce a truncated spur. Similar truncated spurs are seen where a river cuts through a ridge, but here the face was carved by the side of the glacier to become part of the lateral valley wall.
The next hill down also has the carved face of a truncated spur on the top, which ends below on a domed surface. This domed surface is the result of ice surmounting a ridge, which runs towards as and down to the right. This ridge has been smoothed off and is now gently rounded. We can easily recognise this because the ice is still going over the lower parts of the ridge and is about to enter the ice fall we will see on page 3 of the panorama. As it curves over the ridge, crevasses open up again in the top surface of the ice.
An aerial view shows this ridge is for-shortened in the panorama and has two grooves on it, which may be old edges of the glacier.
In the for-ground of the panorama we see more of the lateral moraine's jagged rocks (reviewed on page 1) and also the side of the glacier. In cross section, the glacier is dome shaped, big in the middle and tapering to the sides. The side facing us is coated with debris. The red material is a fungus which likes to grow on ice and snow. Only old snow from previous years is red stained, while fresh snow is pristine white.
The ice here has a very gentle gradient. The paving-stone pattern of closed cracks on the surface results from crevasses, which formed higher up in the ice fall, closing up again as the glacier flexes back to near horizontal, reducing the stress on the top surface.
The peak on the far wall is very different from other peaks around here, for it is smooth and rounded, rather than steep, rough and jagged. This rounded surface tells us immediately that the ice once rode over it.
Aerial photo from http://www.glaciercountry.co.nz
