71°S 70°E / 71°S 70°E / -71; 70 Lambert Glacier is a major glacier in East Antarctica. At about 80 km (50 mi) wide, over 400 km (250 mi) long, and about...
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It is a major tributary of the Lambert Glacier. The glacier is unusual in periodically surging. The Fisher Glacier was sighted from Australian National...
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feeding into the Lambert Glacier, Antarctica. The Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest A small icefall on east lobe of the new Crater Glacier on Mount St. Helens...
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Glacial erratic (section Glacier-borne erratic)
They can be transported by glaciers, and are thereby one of a series of indicators which mark the path of prehistoric glacier movement. Their lithographic...
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East Antarctica, approximately midway between the enormous head of Lambert Glacier and the geographic South Pole, within the Australian claim. Dome Argus...
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Laurentide ice sheet (redirect from Laurentian Glacier)
dissipated north of the Alaska Range where the air was too dry to form glaciers. It is believed that the Cordilleran ice melted rapidly, in less than 4000...
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Lambert Graben is a graben in Antarctica. It intersects the coast at Prydz Bay and contains the largest glacier in the world, Lambert Glacier. The graben...
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interior. The Lambert Glacier flows from Lambert Graben into the Amery Ice Shelf on the south-west side of Prydz Bay. Other major glaciers drain into the...
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sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth...
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Proglacial lake (redirect from Glacier damming)
either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to...
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Hardangerfjord Killary Harbour Monte Rosa Svalbard Antarctica Antarctica Lambert Glacier Ross Ice Shelf Time periods Quaternary glaciation Illinoian Stage Interglacial...
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severe in others. The last glacial period saw alternating episodes of glacier advance and retreat with the Last Glacial Maximum occurring between 26...
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loess deposits as well as in the large amounts of material moved about by glaciers. Less common are cave deposits, travertines and volcanic deposits (lavas...
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streams that flowed within and under glaciers. They tended to form around the time of the glacial maximum, when the glacier was slow and sluggish. After the...
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Hardangerfjord Killary Harbour Monte Rosa Svalbard Antarctica Antarctica Lambert Glacier Ross Ice Shelf Time periods Quaternary glaciation Illinoian Stage Interglacial...
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end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the terminal (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance. At this point, debris that has accumulated...
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in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier. Kames are often associated with...
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retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating glaciers, which become...
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southwards in the North Atlantic, as did glaciers in Greenland. Anecdotal evidence suggests expanding glaciers almost worldwide. Based on radiocarbon dating...
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Hardangerfjord Killary Harbour Monte Rosa Svalbard Antarctica Antarctica Lambert Glacier Ross Ice Shelf Time periods Quaternary glaciation Illinoian Stage Interglacial...
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The Lambert River is a river of the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows north from the Lambert Glacier in the Southern Alps, joining...
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evidence for another abrupt rise in the sea level about 14,500 years ago. Glacier fluctuations around the Strait of Magellan suggest the peak in glacial...
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Wisconsin glaciation (redirect from Wisconsin Glacier)
glaciation during the last glacial period, including the North American alpine glacier advance, known as the Pinedale glaciation. The Wisconsin glaciation extended...
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contained within glaciers directly influences global sea levels - sea level rise occurs if the glaciers retreat, and it drops if glaciers grow. Altogether...
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Ice stream (category Glaciers)
The largest in East Antarctica is Lambert Glacier. In West Antarctica the large Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers are currently the most out of balance...
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Prince Charles Mountains (redirect from Scylla Glacier)
standing just east of Mount Rymill at the junction of Fisher Glacier and Lambert Glacier. It was mapped from air photos taken by the RAAF Antarctic Flight...
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became an arm of the Champlain Sea called Gilbert Gulf. The remaining glaciers fed the sea during that time, making it more brackish than typical seawater...
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Greenland ice sheet (section Observed glacier retreat)
shortened to GIS or GrIS in scientific literature. Greenland has had major glaciers and ice caps for at least 18 million years, but a single ice sheet first...
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retreating glaciers throughout this period. The Driftless Area escaped much of the scouring and depositional action by the continental glaciers that occurred...
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Monte Rosa (section Glaciers)
Anzasca. The Swiss north-western face has several glaciers (with one of the largest Alpine glaciers) flowing towards the Mattertal with Zermatt. Its main...
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