Greenland 1915 1 Record of Photographs
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what was thought to be a hanging gla- cier coming down from the southern cliffs 200 yds ± west of the south branch of the cluett glacier has a broad high foot projecting on the plain and is therefore a piedmont glacier - The east side of this foot has been e- roded by the wind driven snow from the Cluett Glacier so as to show at its base a vertical cliff face 15- 20 feet high. This face shows much sand, mingled with angular bits of rock, for six feet above the ground (the plain) on which it rests. Above the sandy ice the glacier shows many scattered angular block-stones six to twelve inches and more across, pro- jecting from the ice. The vertical face furthermore has been scooped out in shallow, wavy depressions which are polished and oily in ap- pearance. Where foot I was rounded & polished & grooved - shows two well marked thin bands of sand above the lower big one