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    A supraglacial lake is any pond of liquid water on the top of a glacier. Although these pools are ephemeral, they may reach kilometers in diameter and...
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  • refer to: Supraglacial lake Supraglacial moraine Supraglacial till This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Supraglacial. If an...
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    seasonal features as supraglacial lakes, or permanent features which form in the hollows left by cirques in formerly glaciated areas. Lake Tear of the Clouds...
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    or subglacial ponds or lakes. The signatures of supraglacial and basal water flow differ with the passage zone. Supraglacial flow is similar to stream...
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    lakes vary between location and can be classified into glacial erosion lake, ice-blocked lake, moraine-dammed lake, other glacial lake, supraglacial lake...
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    Antarctic Subglacial Lakes Glacial Lake Lake Vostok Lake Whillans Lake Ellsworth Lake Untersee Lake Hodgson Supraglacial lake Underground lake Palmer, Steven...
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    glacial retreat Melt pond Névé Sinkhole Snake coils Subglacial lake Supraglacial lake Neuendorf, K.K.E., J.P. Mehl, Jr., and J.A. Jackson, J.A., eds....
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    "Fracture propagation to the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet during supraglacial lake drainage". Science. 320 (5877): 778–781. Bibcode:2008Sci...320..778D...
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    2023 Sikkim flash floods (category Glacial lake outburst floods)
    Lhonak Lake is a moraine-dammed lake fed by the meltwater of the Lhonak glacier. It was first seen in CORONA satellite images from 1962 as a supraglacial lake...
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    program, the lake first appeared as a supraglacial lake at the glacier's snout on November 24, 1962. The first occurrence of a separate lake was identified...
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    of meltwater at the base of the glacier — perhaps delivered from a supraglacial lake — or the simple accumulation of mass beyond a critical "tipping point"...
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    covered by a thick pile of supraglacial moraines and is characterized by several ice sections, melting into pools of supraglacial lakes. Because of subsidence...
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    Moraine (redirect from Supraglacial moraine)
    chaotic supraglacial sediments onto the landscape with limited reworking, typically forming hummocky moraines. These moraines are composed of supraglacial sediments...
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    Till (redirect from Supraglacial till)
    (beneath) and supraglacial (surface) deposits. Subglacial deposits include lodgement, subglacial meltout, and deformation tills. Supraglacial deposits include...
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    "Fracture Propagation to the Base of the Greenland Ice Sheet During Supraglacial Lake Drainage". Science. 320 (5877): 778–781. Bibcode:2008Sci...320..778D...
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    rock avalanches onto the upper surface of the glacier (supraglacial). Rock avalanche–supraglacial transport occurs when the glacier undercuts a rock face...
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    of glaciers Retreat of glaciers since 1850 "ASTER measurement of supraglacial lakes in the Mount Everest region of the Himalaya: The main Khumbu Glacier...
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    FIRN zone. The water accumulates on top of the glacier in supraglacial lakes and into supraglacial stream channels. The meltwater then flows through various...
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    melting, producing more supraglacial lakes. These lakes may feed warm water to glacial bases and facilitate glacial motion. Lakes of a diameter greater...
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    Gewog, are not a single bodies of water but collections supraglacial ponds. Most glacial lakes identified as potentially dangerous feed into the Manas...
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    "Fracture Propagation to the Base of the Greenland Ice Sheet During Supraglacial Lake Drainage". Science. 320 (5877): 778–781. Bibcode:2008Sci...320..778D...
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    zone often contains meltwater features such as supraglacial lakes, englacial streams, and subglacial lakes. Sediments dropped in the ablation zone forming...
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    on 3 January 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2007. "ASTER measurement of supraglacial lakes in the Mount Everest region of the Himalaya: The main Khumbu Glacier...
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  • cycling. Glacial lake Lake Vostok Lake Ellsworth Lake Hodgson Lake Untersee List of Antarctic subglacial lakes Supraglacial lake Underground lake Wright, Andrew;...
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    an effect through increased surface melting, producing more supraglacial lakes. These lakes may feed warm water to glacial bases and facilitate glacial...
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  • mass balance. Meltwater may come from a number of sources, including supraglacial lakes, geothermal heating of the bed, conduction of heat into the glacier...
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    Eskers may also form above glaciers by accumulation of sediment in supraglacial channels, in crevasses, in linear zones between stagnant blocks, or in...
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    mechanism in which meltwater collected much closer to the surface (as a supraglacial lake) in a period when the glacier had a negative mass balance (i.e. was...
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    Sedimentary rock strata of Castle Mountain's southeast-facing cliffs tower above a supraglacial lake filled with icebergs....
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    present a viable albedo-feedback mechanism, which preferentially forms supraglacial lakes at the margins of many of the outlets in the area. Flowing southwards...
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