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  2. Tunnel valley - Wikipedia

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    Tunnel valleys frequently include relatively straight individual segments parallel to and independent of one another. Tunnel valley courses may be periodically interrupted; the interruption may include a stretch of elevated esker, indicating the channel ran through ice for a distance. The below-grade sections typically run 5–30 km (3.1–18.6 ...

  3. Glacier cave - Wikipedia

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    A partly submerged glacier cave on Perito Moreno Glacier.The ice facade is approximately 60 m high Ice formations in the Titlis glacier cave. A glacier cave is a cave formed within the ice of a glacier.

  4. Subglacial stream - Wikipedia

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    The constant erosion of the tunnel walls is able to offset the narrowing of the tunnel caused by deformation of the ice. [5] Depending on the water supply and the characteristics of the bed, the tunnels can take different forms, including semicircular tunnels cutting into the ice, broad and low tunnels, and tunnels that cut into the bed rather ...

  5. Expansion tunnel - Wikipedia

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    It is a large free piston driven shock tunnel capable of producing sub-orbital flow speeds at a range of Mach numbers. The T4 shock tunnel began operation in April 1987 and commenced routine operation, after a commissioning period, in September 1987. The 10000th shot of T4 was fired in August 2008.

  6. Base tunnel - Wikipedia

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    A base tunnel is a type of tunnel, mainly a railway tunnel, that is built through the base of a mountain pass. This type of tunnel typically connects two valleys at about the same altitudes . [ 1 ]

  7. Glacial lake - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Rila Lakes in Rila mountain, Bulgaria, are of glacial origin. The Great Lakes as seen from space. The Great Lakes are the largest glacial lakes in the world. The prehistoric glacial Lake Agassiz once held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today.

  8. Ice cave - Wikipedia

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    This type of cave was first [dubious – discuss] formally described by Englishman Edwin Swift Balch in 1900, [1] who suggested the French term glacieres should be used for them, even though the term ice cave was then, as now, commonly used to refer to caves simply containing year-round ice.

  9. Glacis - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing upward sloped glacis. A glacis (/ ˈ ɡ l eɪ. s ɪ s /, French:) in military engineering is an artificial slope as part of a medieval castle or in early modern fortresses.