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3.

Speed
-
move faster on surface

-temperate: a
couple day
a

depends slope, discharge, San


-

on

-generally valley glaciers faster


-glacial surge:accelerated flow-terminus
advances
quickly
surface breaks into a maze of crevasses
I cause theories:

1. water saturated sed, allows it to slide


2. glacier slope inc. beaccumulationzone
thickens and thins
wastage zone

f ice creavasses
-top few"Itbrittle, no flow but crack
30m
deep rigid non
moving creep
zone)
-

reflect
pattern underlying creeping ice
-

stresses on surface layer


allow surface blocks in Centre of valle
y
-

glacier to move faster than blocks


at
valley edge slowed
by friction)

glice dynamics
retreating advancing
glacier
gentle terminus

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