Greenland 1915 1 Record of Photographs
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Call this the George B Cluett Glacier (+ its big ice glacier) the Green Brown - glacier) , or perhaps better the Elebeau Glacier. rises with gradual slope from the alluvial plain. Seems to be no cliff of foot of ice, tho' this may be so low that it is hidden by the snow. Lower portion of glacier looks concave but may not be so, as if its profile were like this: ? No terminal moraine. [Butsee p. 84] Glacier alluvial plain. We crossed no crevasses and saw none. Most of the surface is covered with snow, and this was its appearance when I first saw it from the "Cluett" passing the entrance to the bay at a distance of six miles, on 11 September. Also when I saw it from the shore at the head of the bay a half-mile distant on 24 Sep- tember. In this feature the contrast with a neighboring glacier 1/4 mile to the north is marked. That is most- ly bare, bluish green ice and is further- more steep or precipitous at its lower end, is deeply crevassed and has a strong terminal moraine along part of its lower end. The prominent nunatake of the south ern glacier is a lenticular boss of greissoid granite or strongly gran-