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glacier (US: /ˈɡleɪʃər/; UK: /ˈɡlæsiər, ˈɡleɪsiər/) is a
persistent body of
dense ice that is
constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier...
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Thwaites Glacier is an
unusually broad and vast
Antarctic glacier located east of
Mount Murphy, on the
Walgreen Coast of
Marie Byrd Land. It was initially...
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Stonehenge origins 'are
digging in
wrong place'. Nov 20, 2013 BBC News: New
Glacier theory on
Stonehenge Retrieved on 13
October 2008 "Stonehenge 'bluestone' quarries...
- Alps by the
action of
glaciers. Two
decades later, in 1818, the
Swedish botanist Göran
Wahlenberg (1780–1851)
published his
theory of a
glaciation of the...
- "Modeling
moulin distribution on
Sermeq Avannarleq glacier using ASTER and
WorldView imagery and
fuzzy set
theory" (PDF).
Remote Sensing of Environment. 115 (9):...
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highest glaciers. The
Gangotri which is 32 km (20 mi) long and is one of the
largest glaciers, is one of the
sources of the Ganges. The
Himalayan glaciers show...
- Ice calving, also
known as
glacier calving or
iceberg calving, is the
breaking of ice
chunks from the edge of a
glacier. It is a form of ice
ablation or...
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Glacial landforms are
landforms created by the
action of
glaciers. Most of today's
glacial landforms were
created by the
movement of
large ice
sheets during...
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surges are short-lived
events where the flow
velocity on a
portion of a
glacier can
increase up to 100
times faster than
normal during a few
months or...
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Jakobshavn Glacier (Danish:
Jakobshavn Isbræ), also
known as
Ilulissat Glacier (Greenlandic:
Sermeq Kujalleq), is a
large outlet glacier in West Greenland...
