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    The document discusses observations made while cutting a tunnel into a glacier. It was found that basal ice had frozen to the underlying rock, confirming the existence of a thin layer of liquid water at the ice-rock interface. Further down the glacier, a 10m cavity was discovered between the separated ice and bedrock, likely formed in the low pressure zone behind a large subglacial rise where ice could not flow in to close the gap.

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    The document discusses observations made while cutting a tunnel into a glacier. It was found that basal ice had frozen to the underlying rock, confirming the existence of a thin layer of liquid water at the ice-rock interface. Further down the glacier, a 10m cavity was discovered between the separated ice and bedrock, likely formed in the low pressure zone behind a large subglacial rise where ice could not flow in to close the gap.

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    The document discusses observations made while cutting a tunnel into a glacier. It was found that basal ice had frozen to the underlying rock, confirming the existence of a thin layer of liquid water at the ice-rock interface. Further down the glacier, a 10m cavity was discovered between the separated ice and bedrock, likely formed in the low pressure zone behind a large subglacial rise where ice could not flow in to close the gap.

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    The basal ice froze to the rock when the pressure was released by cutting out
    the ice
    immediately above. This confirmed the existence of a thin layer of water, at
    freezing point,
    at the ice-rock interface.
    4. The icewas separated from bedrock over a distance of 10mdown-glacier from the
    tunnel. As
    the tunnel reached bedrock near the crest of a large rise, this separation could be
    described as
    a large cavity in the lee of the rise. Large cavities would be expected because the
    hydrostatic
    pressure, which would cause the ice to flow in and close them, was low.

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