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Termini of the glaciers in the Bhutan-Himalaya. Glacial lakes have been rapidly forming on the surface of the debris-covered glaciers in this region during the last few decades. USGS researchers have found a strong correlation between increasing temperatures and glacial retreat in this region.
Glacial motion is the motion of glaciers, which can be likened to rivers of ice. It has played an important role in sculpting many landscapes. Most lakes in the world occupy basins scoured out by glaciers. Glacial motion can be fast (up to 30 metres per day (98 ft/d), observed on Jakobshavn Isbræ in Greenland)[1] or slow (0.5 metres per year (20 in/year) on small glaciers or in the center of ice sheets), but is typically around 25 centimetres per day (9.8 in/d).[2]
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Glacialmotion is the motion of glaciers, which can be likened to rivers of ice. It has played an important role in sculpting many landscapes. Most lakes...
ocean. Although evidence in favor of glacial flow was known by the early 19th century, other theories of glacialmotion were advanced, such as the idea that...
maze of smaller blocks toward the bottom of the fall. Due to constant glacialmotion, snow bridges concealing crevasses and overhanging ice blocks (called...
pulses of cold climate within an ice age are termed glacial periods (glacials, glaciations, glacial stages, stadials, stades, or colloquially, ice ages)...
Subglacial streams are conduits of glacial meltwater that flow at the base of glaciers and ice caps. Meltwater from the glacial surface travels downward throughout...
supraglacial lakes. These lakes may feed warm water to glacial bases and facilitate glacialmotion. Lakes of a diameter greater than ~300 m are capable...
Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion. These scratches and gouges were first recognized as the result...
kilometers when they collide or grind across the ocean floor. Basal glacialmotion be enhanced due to water accumulation underneath a glacier sourced from...
period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology...
Welteislehre developed in Germany between the two world wars which suggested glacialmotion creating the craters. Grove Karl Gilbert suggested in 1893 that the...
feet (610 m). Rock debris that was transported out of the canyon by glacialmotion formed moraines which now impound the waters of Jenny Lake which is...
evidence of this glacial activity. The upper portion (from Long Island Sound to Hell Gate), running largely perpendicular to the glacialmotion, is wide, meandering...
advanced the understanding of glacialmotion, especially in fast ice flow. Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), the author of a glacial theory which disputed the notion...
Greenland, ice sheets breaking up trigger what is known as "glacialmotion" or "glacial earthquakes". Greenland is one of the areas in both the Nordic...
Brokeoff that in some years the snowfield there experiences incipient glacialmotion. Two moraines below it, one very recent, provide clear evidence at least...
was the first to point out certain important observations relating to glacialmotion and structure. Among other things he noted the more rapid flow of the...
debris is expected to emerge in future, not only as a result of normal glacialmotion, but also as the glacier melts. A 2000 Argentine Air Force investigation...
glacial earthquake A large-scale temblor that occurs in glaciated areas where the glacier moves faster than one kilometer per year. glacialmotion global...
Cathedral Group are classic alpine peaks, with pyramidal shapes caused by glacialmotion. The highest peak in the group is Grand Teton, which rises more than...
prominent evidence of glacial erosion, since they feature lava flows that only underwent alteration by late Pleistocene epoch glacialmotion. Outside of the...
unstable due to melting and glacialmotion, and are subject to localized or complete collapse, as well as elimination by glacial retreat. An example of the...
(1789–1859) – bishop who wrote an important book on the mechanisms of glacialmotion; the Rendu Glacier, Alaska, US and Mount Rendu, Antarctica are named...
basal pressure, which collectively reduces friction and accelerates glacialmotion, including the rate of ice calving. This mechanism was observed at Sermeq...
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