rock glacier (thing) by Tem42 - Everything2.com
Mon Oct 29 2007 at 18:36:26 A rock glacier (AKA a block stream) is an ill-defined beast. It is, in essence, a pile of rocks that looks or acts like a glacier: "...a tongue-like or lobate body, usually of angular boulders, that resembles a small glacier, generally occurs in high mountainous terrain and usually has ridges, furrows, and sometimes lobes on its surface, and has a steep front at the angle of repose. -- N. Potter Jr., 1972 Ice-cored rock glacier, Galena Creek, northern Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 83, 3025-3057. Rock glaciers commonly o...
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