Many different processes operate at modern glacier margins, not only direct deposition from the ice. Because of the availability of meltwater in summer from exposed and buried ice, sediment is especially prone to flowage. Here we see glacial deposits resting on stagnant glacier ice several kimometres from the active margin of Kongsvegen in NW Spitsbergen. As the ice melts, the debris cover collapses and flows downslope as slurry.