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265:2013-12-24 at the
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573:Measurements
509:Accumulation
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433:Glacier head
428:Glacier cave
372:Rock glacier
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862:Outwash fan
857:Kettle hole
741:Valley step
721:Trough lake
701:Ribbon lake
661:Finger lake
403:Bergschrund
919:Categories
889:Glaciology
872:Urstromtal
852:Kame delta
804:Till plain
601:Jökulhlaup
559:Starvation
438:Ice divide
352:Ice stream
237:2007-11-25
216:2007-03-21
191:2007-11-25
634:Erosional
626:Landforms
497:Processes
478:Randkluft
473:Penitente
418:Dirt cone
347:Ice shelf
342:Ice sheet
337:Ice field
925:Glaciers
894:Category
832:Diluvium
827:Alpentor
736:U-valley
580:Ice core
549:Plucking
504:Ablation
488:Terminus
413:Crevasse
408:Blue ice
308:Glaciers
263:Archived
140:See also
79:Tracking
774:Moraine
764:Drumlin
691:Nunatak
554:Retreat
519:Calving
463:Moraine
448:Icefall
386:Anatomy
357:Ledoyom
332:Ice cap
85:bedrock
57:glacier
867:Sandur
711:Suncup
696:P-form
646:Cirque
529:Motion
468:Moulin
327:Cirque
322:Aufeis
233:. USGS
61:motion
837:Esker
666:Fjord
641:Arête
564:Surge
524:Creep
483:Sérac
315:Types
167:Notes
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51:, or
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616:Tuya
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