glaciers formed in mountainous areas are called
Piedmont glaciers are large, gently sloping ice mounds. Also known as lakes of ice, piedmont glaciers form when a valley glacier reaches the lowlands or plain at the foot of a mountain and spreads out. These are common in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, and Antarctica.Glaciers that form in small valleys on the sides of mountains are called ice caps.Found in Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica, ice caps usually do not move out of their basinlike area.ypes of glaciers. Glaciers that flow down a valley from high mountainous regions usually follow paths originally formed by rivers of snowmelt in the spring and summer. These valley or mountain glaciers end in a valley or ocean, and tend to increase the sharpness and steepness of the surrounding mountains along the way.