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    A crevasse is a deep crack that forms in a glacier or ice sheet. Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the shear...
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    Aspects of crevasse rescue Crevasse rescue (or crevasse-extraction) is a set of techniques in mountaineering where climbers use their equipment to pull...
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  • "Into the Crevasse" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 60th overall episode of the series...
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    A crevasse splay is a sedimentary fluvial deposit which forms when a stream breaks its natural or artificial levees and deposits sediment on a floodplain...
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    Fissure (section Crevasse)
    and compacted soils with a high percentage of fine-grained material. A crevasse, also called an ice fissure, is a deep linear crack in an ice sheet or...
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    Sauvé's Crevasse was a Mississippi River levee failure in May 1849 that resulted in flooding much of New Orleans, Louisiana. In May 1849 the Mississippi...
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    massive transverse blocks that calve off the upper glacier, creating gaping crevasses (of order 100 m deep and often over 15 metres or 50 feet wide). As these...
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  • Crevasse Crag is a jagged steep-sided prominence on the summit of a glaciated mountain ridge in the Lillooet Ranges of southwestern British Columbia, Canada...
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  • attempt to pull Annie out of the crevasse, but an ice boulder falls, knocking Wick and Vaughn from the ledge in the crevasse, and pulling Annie and Peter...
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    La Crevasse is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, overlooking Sembrancher in the canton of Valais. It lies just east of the Col des Planches. The mountain...
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    Hamarglovene Crevasses Jutulgryta Crevasses Jutulpløgsla Crevasses Kråsen Crevasse Field Styggebrekka Crevasses Trollkjelen Crevasse Field Ulendet Crevasses Akebono...
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  • The Jutulpløgsla Crevasses (72°28′S 1°35′W / 72.467°S 1.583°W / -72.467; -1.583) form a crevasse field halfway up Jutulstraumen Glacier, about 8 nautical...
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    90°26′29″W / 30.00222°N 90.44139°W / 30.00222; -90.44139 The Bonnet Carré Crevasse (1871) was one of several levee breaches in the Bonnet Carré area in the...
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  • The Crevasse Canyon Formation is a coal-bearing Cretaceous geologic formation in New Mexico and Arizona. The formation is divided into three members, in...
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  • the large crevasse immediately underneath. Yates realized the situation that Simpson had been in and that he must have fallen into the crevasse when the...
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    (ladders) at the crevasse. As of the 2016 fall climbing season, a 5-metre high fixed aluminum ladder is being used to cross the crevasse. Imja Glacier Imja...
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    glaciers where a rope team member falling into a crevasse is about to drag the other members into the crevasse with them, it is critical that the climber(s)...
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  • Glacier to the Denfeld Mountains. It then runs north past the mouth of the Crevasse Valley Glacier and northwest along the southern edge of the Guest Peninsula...
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  • referred to as floodplain deposits. Examples include natural levees and crevasse splays. Floodplains are far wider than the channel they border, reaching...
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    down into a crevasse before reaching Camp-1 at an altitude of 5750m. No rescue effort has yielded any results; he remains inside the crevasse. Recovery...
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  • Styggebrekka Crevasses is a crevasse field near the center of Austreskorve Glacier, in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land. Plotted from surveys...
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  • dragging a sled. Glaciers often have deep crevasses, which can be concealed by thin layers of snow. A crevasse opened up beneath Kerrebrock who fell in...
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  • The Hamarglovene Crevasses (71°56′S 5°5′E / 71.933°S 5.083°E / -71.933; 5.083) are a crevasse field in lower Vestreskorve Glacier just east of Hamaroya...
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  • Bowie Crevasse Field is a large crevasse field at a break in slope on the Minnesota Glacier between the southeast end of the Bastien Range and Anderson...
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    A bergschrund (from the German for mountain cleft) is a crevasse that forms where moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice or firn above. It...
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    known to set off avalanches under certain conditions. Glissading near crevasses (e.g. a glacier or a bergshrund) is also very dangerous, and even more...
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  • Ulendet Crevasses is a crevasse field about 7 miles (11 km) long in the Jutulstraumen Glacier, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Neumayer Cliffs in...
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    helicopter. In 2016 a crevasse opened at high altitude, also indicating previously unobserved glacial movements. The new crevasse forms an obstacle to...
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    years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as crevasses and seracs, as it slowly flows and deforms under stresses induced by its...
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  • Berlin include Brandenberger Bluff and Fields Peak in the north, the Berlin Crevasse Field, Melford Knoll, Kraut Rocks, and Merrem Peak to the west, and Berlin...
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