ICE SHEETS AND GLACIERS 



the glacier was nearly stagnant, though it seems to 

 me that some differential movement is shown. Indeed, 

 some movement was indicated by the stakes inserted 

 by Wright and Debenham level with Cathedral Rocks, 

 but the condition of the southern portion of the snout 

 w^ould seem to indicate that it is not transmitted in this 

 portion of the glacier. The surface was seamed by 

 numerous channels and cut into small pinnacles and 

 thaw pools in a manner which showed that it had not 

 altered its position for many years. On the northern 

 side, however, there was a striking ridge of heaped 

 up pressure-pinnacles which lead me to believe that 

 there is motion in this moiety of the glacier. The 

 sea-ice was free from the pressure ridges which we 

 saw in Granite Harbor, hence the movement is less 

 than in the Mackay Glacier. 



After walking for about half a mile over the sea-ice, 

 south from our camp, I was surprised to find a pro- 

 longation of the Glacier extended as a lateral tongue 

 for four miles along the southern shores. It was neces- 

 sary to cross this to reach the hill slopes. After cross- 

 ing half a mile of the tongue, I reached the first mo- 

 raine heap. There was no very definite arrangement 

 of the debris along continuous ridges, but here and 

 there oval piles of stone and gravel were scattered 

 about the glacier. The ice was usually melted into a 

 pool at their bases. The first moraine heap was seventy 

 yards long and about ten feet high. It showed an ex- 

 traordinary mingling of powder and large blocks, of 

 which the latter were all somewhat rounded. Among 

 the stones were specimens of gneiss, dolerite, felspar, 



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