. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Geology. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF JOSTEDAL PLATEAU 415 plateau are disposed of by melting and plunging over the cliffs in numer- ous streams, by falling bodily over the cliffs at more than a hundred points—the so-called glaciers of the second class—and in more than twenty great tongues of ice that cascade into the chasms at the fiord head. Two of these enter each of the lakes named Figure 2.—The Loen and Olden Lakes. The Tongues of the Jostedal Ice Sheet kjendals g-laoier Three miles above the head of Loen lake, Kjendalsbrae in part falls ov
. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Geology. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF JOSTEDAL PLATEAU 415 plateau are disposed of by melting and plunging over the cliffs in numer- ous streams, by falling bodily over the cliffs at more than a hundred points—the so-called glaciers of the second class—and in more than twenty great tongues of ice that cascade into the chasms at the fiord head. Two of these enter each of the lakes named Figure 2.—The Loen and Olden Lakes. The Tongues of the Jostedal Ice Sheet kjendals g-laoier Three miles above the head of Loen lake, Kjendalsbrae in part falls over a cliff of rock, in part flows down a steep incline. Below, it gathers again into a true glacier on a gentle slope. Its erosional effects are very disappointing. There is no moraine. The ice point, which is about 100. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Geological Society of America. [New York : The Society]
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