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Contorted organic layers in closed crevasses

Location: Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
Contorted organic layers in closed crevasses

Contorted organic layers in closed crevasses, probably on Aktineq Glacier (B17). Organic materials such as algae and animals (e.g., geese, hares) fall into crevasses when they are open and are compressed in closed crevasses in zones of compression down-ice from the zones of extension that create the crevasses.












Date taken: July 1991
Photo ID: 0076
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