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Ice Divide

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Ice Divide 

a line of the greatest altitude separating the parts of a glacier shield or ice sheet, whose ice is moving in opposite or strongly diverging directions (for example, in Antarctica, in Greenland, Vatnajökull in Iceland, and on the firn fields of El’brus).
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1 and 2) and New Brunswick, ii) the style of deglaciation of Newfoundland, with the Avalon Peninsula first, followed by a sudden collapse of central Newfoundland, iii) early deglaciation of summits, followed by delayed deglaciation in areas that had thicker ice, and (iv) cold-based ice in areas of thin ice or under ice divides, wet-based more erosive ice under areas of rapid flow or thicker ice.
ACID-3 Workshop, October 16-17, 2006 by Geoscience Canada
We think that the binding [of the antifreeze] to the ice divides the growth steps into many small steps that become highly curved," says DeVries.
A biological antifreeze; antifreeze proteins found in the blood of ... by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
 
 
 
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