The Textures of Ice

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Every sightline between Constable Point and Summit–the Greenland coast and the dome of the ice sheet–reveals a world of ice. But even in the ocean-like expanses of the ice sheet, an amazing diversity of textures exists. Both the motion of glacial ice pressing seaward over the underlying terrain, and the action of wind-blown ice particles skipping across the snow surface, create a landscape with infinite variations.

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