Samstag, 24. Mai 2008

Panta rhei


Shear bands in the tongue of the "Gurglerferner", a glacier in the Ötztaler Alps (Italy-Austria), dipping from nearby flowparalell to vertical, to cross the surface of the glacier perpendicular. This feature demonstrates that in the movement of glaciers an important role plays even brittle deformation


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