Wasting Glaciers (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Wasting Glaciers

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In western Greenland, small outlet glaciers are wasting backward, leaving behind piles of rocks, or moraines, that mark their previous advances. Meltwater has formed a lake.

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Jason Briner

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