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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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  • "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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    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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  • 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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    Fissure (section Crevasse)
    occurs at the floor of arid valleys having rock formations and compacted soils with a high percentage of fine-grained material. A crevasse, also called...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Hamarglovene Crevasses Jutulgryta Crevasses Jutulpløgsla Crevasses Kråsen Crevasse Field Styggebrekka Crevasses Trollkjelen Crevasse Field Ulendet Crevasses Akebono...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    successful summit of the central rib of the south face on 10 July. Six days later, Italian soloist Renato Casarotto fell into a crevasse, after an unsuccessful...
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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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