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MARION EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



Front view of a Tidewater Glacier at a Distance of One- half Mile 



Figure 49. — A view of about one-lialf mile distant from the same glacier shown on 

 Figure 46. The heights of the front wall in this view is dwarfed hy the altitude of 

 the upland, about 700 feet, from which the glacier in a distance of a mile or more 

 descends to the level of the fjord. Note also the manner in which the glacier 

 spreads out fan shape after passing through the gateway of the headlands. (Photo- 

 graph by Boatswain J. B. Krestensen.) 



The Discharge of the Inland ice 



FiGUBE 50. — Ekip-Sermia Glacier near Atta Sound, west Greenland, visited by the 

 Marion expedition the summer of 1928. In the right foreground lies a lateral 

 moraine formed by the sweep of the glacier on its path to the fjord. (I'botograpli 

 by Boatswain J. B. Krestensen.) 



