Dead ice

Dead ice is the ice in a part of a glacier or ice sheet that is no longer moving.^[1] As the ice melts, it leaves behind a hummocky terrain known as dead-ice moraine. A dead-ice moraine is produced by the accumulation of sediments carried by glaciers that have been left behind from ice melting. Features of such terrain include kettle holes.^[2]^[3] Landscapes forming Veiki moraines in northern Sweden and Canada have been attributed to the errosion of extensive bodies of till-covered dead ice.^[4]

^ "Dead ice". Cryosphere Glossary. National Snow & Ice Data Center. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
^ Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, p. 133. ISBN 0-14-051094-X.
^ Bluemle, John P. "Buried Glaciers and Dead-Ice Moraine". North Dakota Notes. North Dakota Geological Survey. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
^ Lagerbäck, Robert (1988). "The Veiki moraines in northern Sweden - widespread evidence of an Early Weichselian deglaciation". Boreas. 17 (4): 469–486.

[1] "Dead ice". Cryosphere Glossary. National Snow & Ice Data Center. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[2] Whittow, John (1984). Dictionary of Physical Geography. London: Penguin, p. 133. ISBN 0-14-051094-X.

[:2-3] Bluemle, John P. "Buried Glaciers and Dead-Ice Moraine". North Dakota Notes. North Dakota Geological Survey. Retrieved 7 September 2021.

[4] Lagerbäck, Robert (1988). "The Veiki moraines in northern Sweden - widespread evidence of an Early Weichselian deglaciation". Boreas. 17 (4): 469–486.

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