What is ice marginal?

adjective. (Especially of lakes and watercourses) formed or occurring along the ice front of a glacier or ice sheet.

What is a glacier margin?

Abstract. A glaciated margin is a continental margin that has been occupied by a large ice mass, such that glacial processes and slope processes conspire to produce a thick sedimentary record.

What are ice marginal lakes?

Ice marginal lakes are a dynamic component of terrestrial meltwater storage at the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The greatest proportion of lakes lie around Greenland’s ice caps and mountain glaciers, and the southwest margin of the ice sheet.

What is outwash plain in geography?

Outwash plains are wide, tenderly sloping sheets of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater outwash at the snout of the glaciers. Outwash plains are commonly found in Iceland where geothermal activity speeds up the melting of ice flow and deposition of sediments carried by melting water.

What is a shear margin?

A shear margin is the point where fast-flowing glacier ice meets slow-moving ice or rock (in this case, ice attached to the Dufek Massif in Antarctica’s Pensacola Mountains).

Why are subglacial streams powerful?

The pressures are very high in these streams due to the huge mass of ice above them, consequently, they have very high erosive power meaning they will increase the volume of water flowing through, maintaining the high pressure.

Is there a red waterfall in Antarctica?

Situated at the terminus of Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Blood Falls, which is an iron-rich, hypersaline discharge, spews bold streaks of bright-red brine from within the glacier out onto the ice-covered surface of Lake Bonney.

What is the highest waterfall in Antarctica?

Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.

What is the management and administration of ice?

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Who are the people that work for ice?

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How are ice-marginal meltwater channels used in geomorphological maps?

Ice-marginal meltwater channels can track the position of the glacier snout. Once the glacier is gone, the ice-marginal meltwater channels are left behind, often forming nested sequences that mark out the former ice margin (e.g., see geomorphological map below).

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