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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"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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Crevasse rescue is the process of retrieving a climber from a crevasse in a glacier. As a result of the frequency with which climbers break through the...
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breach that forms a crevasse splay deposits sediments in similar pattern to an alluvial fan deposit. Once the levee has been breached the water flows out...
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large crevasse immediately underneath. Yates realized the situation that Simpson had been in and that he must have fallen into the crevasse when the rope...
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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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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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twisted and crushed by the churning pressure of glacial flow, generating increasingly tortuous crevasse fields in the middle of the fall and a chaotic maze...
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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,...
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crossing the narrow ice bridge, Sapper Lewis's pulk (a small sled or sledge) slid off the bridge and pulled him backwards into the crevasse. It may have...
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Sulzberger Ice Shelf (redirect from Crevasse Valley Glacier)
then runs north past the mouth of the Crevasse Valley Glacier and northwest along the southern edge of the Guest Peninsula. The seaward side extends in...
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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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forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as crevasses and seracs...
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Overbank (section Crevasse splays)
floodplain deposits. Examples include natural levees and crevasse splays. Floodplains are far wider than the channel they border, reaching widths of up to 100...
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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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Mt Everest crevasse". The Himalayan Times. Retrieved April 10, 2013. TIME (June 7, 1982). "Milestones: Jun. 7, 1982". TIME. Archived from the original on...
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Imja Tse (category Six-thousanders of the Himalayas)
(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...
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that Simpson must have fallen to the large crevasse at the base of the cliff. He inspects the opening of the crevasse the best he can without falling in...
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The Great North is an American animated sitcom created by Wendy Molyneux, Lizzie Molyneux, and Minty Lewis that premiered on Fox on January 3, 2021. It...
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Alps (redirect from Mountain Region of the Alps)
dragons in the medieval period. The cracking creates unpredictable and dangerous crevasses, often invisible under new snowfall, which causes the greatest...
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Flood Range (redirect from Berlin Crevasse Field)
Brandenberger Bluff and Fields Peak in the north, the Berlin Crevasse Field, Melford Knoll, Kraut Rocks, and Merrem Peak to the west, and Berlin Crater, Wedemeyer...
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mountainous terrain. A couloir may be a seam, scar, or fissure, or vertical crevasse in an otherwise solid mountain mass. Though often hemmed in by sheer cliff...
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Jim Wickwire (section Crevasse on McKinley)
the lead. They were roped together and dragging a sled. Glaciers often have deep crevasses, which can be concealed by thin layers of snow. A crevasse...
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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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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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Mont Blanc (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
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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Saser Kangri (category Seven-thousanders of the Karakoram)
fell 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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during an international Dhaulagiri/Manaslu expedition in Nepal. He fell into a crevasse at an elevation of 5500 m while acclimatizing. MountEverest.net Polish...
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