Meaning of ice-foot | Babel Free

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Partie basse au front d’un glacier ou un banc de neige durcie ou partiellement converti en glace, localisé au pied d'une colline escarpée ^([2]).

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“Along that part of the coast of Greenland where the ice-foot is shed⟳ at the end⟳ of every summer, the quantities of rock debris thus borne seawards must be something prodigious.”

“Marsh et al. (1973) and Bryan & Marcus (1973) report⟳ the occurrence of sand and pebble-sized sediments in the ice-foots of Lake Superior, and Fahnestock et al. (1973, Figure⟳ 6) photographed a 20 kg block⟳ of shale that was deposited on the flank of an ice-cone by wave⟳ activity.”

“On the evening of July 5, therefore, we drove to Noresund; but here we were met by absolutely ice-free water, and had to take⟳ to the ice-foot in order⟳ to reach⟳ the fast ice inside the fjord.”

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