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    71°S 70°E / 71°S 70°E / -71; 70 Lambert Glacier is a major glacier in East Antarctica. At about 80 km (50 mi) wide, over 400 km (250 mi) long, and about...
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  • It is a major tributary of the Lambert Glacier. The glacier is unusual in periodically surging. The Fisher Glacier was sighted from Australian National...
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    feeding into the Lambert Glacier, Antarctica. The Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest A small icefall on east lobe of the new Crater Glacier on Mount St. Helens...
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  • East Antarctica, approximately midway between the enormous head of Lambert Glacier and the geographic South Pole, within the Australian claim. Dome Argus...
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  • Lambert Graben is a graben in Antarctica. It intersects the coast at Prydz Bay and contains the largest glacier in the world, Lambert Glacier. The graben...
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    dissipated north of the Alaska Range where the air was too dry to form glaciers. It is believed that the Cordilleran ice melted rapidly, in less than 4000...
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    Hardangerfjord Killary Harbour Monte Rosa Svalbard Antarctica Antarctica Lambert Glacier Ross Ice Shelf Time periods Quaternary glaciation Illinoian Stage Interglacial...
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    interior. The Lambert Glacier flows from Lambert Graben into the Amery Ice Shelf on the south-west side of Prydz Bay. Other major glaciers drain into the...
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    severe in others. During this last glacial period, alternating episodes of glacier advance, and retreat occurred. Within the last glacial period, the Last...
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    loess deposits as well as in the large amounts of material moved about by glaciers. Less common are cave deposits, travertines and volcanic deposits (lavas...
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    sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth...
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    either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to...
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    streams that flowed within and under glaciers. They tended to form around the time of the glacial maximum, when the glacier was slow and sluggish. After the...
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    Hardangerfjord Killary Harbour Monte Rosa Svalbard Antarctica Antarctica Lambert Glacier Ross Ice Shelf Time periods Quaternary glaciation Illinoian Stage Interglacial...
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  • The Lambert River is a river of the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows north from the Lambert Glacier in the Southern Alps, joining...
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  • decline of temperatures in Greenland by 4–10 °C (7.2–18 °F), and advances of glaciers and drier conditions over much of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. A...
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    retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating glaciers, which become...
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    end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the terminal (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance. At this point, debris that has accumulated...
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    They can be transported by glaciers, and are thereby one of a series of indicators which mark the path of prehistoric glacier movement. Their lithographic...
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    third largest glacier is found on the Folgefonna peninsula, along of the Hardangerfjord. With its three parts, the Folgefonna glacier covers an area...
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    southwards in the North Atlantic, as did glaciers in Greenland. Anecdotal evidence suggests expanding glaciers almost worldwide. Based on radiocarbon dating...
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    evidence for another abrupt rise in the sea level about 14,500 years ago. Glacier fluctuations around the Strait of Magellan suggest the peak in glacial...
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    in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier. Kames are often associated with...
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  • Hardangerfjord Killary Harbour Monte Rosa Svalbard Antarctica Antarctica Lambert Glacier Ross Ice Shelf Time periods Quaternary glaciation Illinoian Stage Interglacial...
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    glaciation during the last glacial period, including the North American alpine glacier advance, known as the Pinedale glaciation. The Wisconsin glaciation extended...
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    standing just east of Mount Rymill at the junction of Fisher Glacier and Lambert Glacier. It was mapped from air photos taken by the RAAF Antarctic Flight...
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    faded north of the Alaska Range because the climate was too dry to form glaciers.[citation needed] The ice sheet covered up to 2,500,000 km2 (970,000 sq mi)...
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    became an arm of the Champlain Sea called Gilbert Gulf. The remaining glaciers fed the sea during that time, making it more brackish than typical seawater...
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    retreating glaciers throughout this period. The Driftless Area escaped much of the scouring and depositional action by the continental glaciers that occurred...
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    shortened to GIS or GrIS in scientific literature. Greenland has had major glaciers and ice caps for at least 18 million years, but a single ice sheet first...
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