ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF JOSTEDAL PLATEAU 



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plateau are disposed of by melting and plunging over the cliffs in numer- 

 ous streams, by falling bodily over the cliffs at more than a hundred 

 points — the so-called glaciers of the second class — and in more than 

 twenty great tongues of ice that cascade into the chasms at the fiord 

 head. Two of these enter each of the lakes named above. 



Figure 2. — The Loen and Olden Lakes. 



The Tongues of the Jostedal Ice Sheet 



kjendals g-laoier 



Three miles above the head of Loen lake, Kjendalsbrae in part falls 

 over a cliff of rock, in part flows down a steep incline. Below, it gathers 

 again into a true glacier on a gentle slope. Its erosional effects are very 

 disappointing. There is no moraine. The ice point, which is about 100 



