SCIENTIFIC EESULTS 



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S. Coast Guard patrol Boat ■■Marion" in Front of a 

 West Greenland Glacier 



Figure 47. — The United States Coast patrol boat, Marion. August 9. lOiis. a few 

 hundred yards off the ghicier shown on Figure 46. The front Wall was estimated 

 to rise about 70 feet above the level of the fji rd. The rough and jagged top 

 .surface of the glacier Indicates the formative stresses and strains set up by the 

 ice stream as it moves across the foreland to the fjord. Several projectiles were 

 fired from the Marion's H-inch gun causing little apparent fragmentation of the 

 front wall. (Official photograph of the Marion expedition.) 



Side View of a West Greenland Iceberg 



l'"i(;iUK 4s.-- A side view of the glacier shown on Figure 4(i, lodkiiig uoi'ibward. The 

 Marioti can be seen far below in the left foreground. This aiicln.rMgc is known as 

 yuervainsbavn. in memory of the leader of the SchweiztTisclien-Urcinland expedi- 

 tion, who departed from this point to cross the Greenland ice cap in the summer 

 of 1911.'. A rock cairn in the foreground just lielow the brow of the hill marks the 

 encam])ment of the expedition. (Official i)hot(>graph, Marion expedition.) 



