Explore: Stagnant Ice

"schrund") is a crevasse that forms where moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice or firn above. It is often a serious obstacle for mountaineers

lock of stagnant ice leaves a depression or pit. Eskers Steep sided ridges of gravel/sand, possibly caused by streams running under stagnant ice. Kames

friction knots. Bergschrund – Crevasse between moving glacier ice and the stagnant ice or firn above Bowie Crevasse Field – LandformPages displaying short

crevasses are largely transverse to flow. Moving glacier ice can sometimes separate from the stagnant ice above, forming a bergschrund. Bergschrunds resemble

bedforms. Newfound glacial features include an ice-sculptured bedrock surface, residual stagnant-ice-contact deposits, a recessional moraine, and exposed

attendance figures remained stagnant. In May 1994, the Shriners dropped its sponsorship of the Christmas show in favor of Disney On Ice. In February 1995, Hamill

At the end of the Wolstonian Stage (c. 130,000 years ago) a mass of stagnant ice left in the Vale of Belvoir caused the river to divert north along the

moulin may be exposed in the face of a glacier or at the edge of a stagnant block of ice. Water from moulins may help lubricate the base of the glacier,

in Jackson Hole. A collection of kettles (depressions left by melted stagnant ice blocks from a retreating glacier) south of the lake is called the Potholes

have formed when basaltic lava of the lower assemblage ponded against stagnant ice in cirques. The lowermost basalt flow of the lower assemblage along the