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accumulates like talus below. The fragments of ice may then be- 

 come a coherent mass by regelation, and the whole may resume 



Fig. 193. Malaspina Glacier, a Piedmont glacier in Alaska. (After Russell.) 



Fig. 194. A cliff glacier, coast of North Greenland. The height of the cliff 

 is perhaps 2,000 feet. The water in the foreground is the sea. 



