The in-situ melting of glacier ice. Many glaciers have stagnant termini, covered by thick sediment debris. Some support vegetation, including mature forests. Water-filled melt-pits dot the surface of bering glacier's stagnant medial moraine. Chugach National Forest, Alaska. Fairweather Glacier's mature spruce and hemlock trees are growing on the surface of the stagnant melting terminus, Glacier Bay, Alaska. Mature spruce trees are falling into the Pacific Ocean at the stagnant termnus of Malaspina Glacier at Satkigi Bluffs, Wrangell-St.Elias, Alaska.