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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0855836a-c8bb-4749-898f-86d066882a90/F56B2005-156C-4624-8C85-95C4D82F6F66/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=2" href="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.swisseduc.ch</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=2"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.swisseduc.ch/img/1A704C65-81EC-41C0-939C-412811777DB1" alt="Fluctuating glaciers" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=2">Thompson Glacier on Axel Heiberg Island has shown sustained advance since at least the 1960s when scientific investigations began in the area. The 30m-high cliff is characteristic of large advancing polythermal glaciers. In this case it is not only overriding a ‘meadow’ of well-established purple saxifrage, but is also pushing up a large pile of river gravel.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=3" href="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=3" style="font-size: 11px;">www.swisseduc.ch</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.swisseduc.ch/img/150CF09F-8D33-47B4-A030-DB3823202B7D" alt="Fluctuating glaciers" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=3">An oblique aerial view of the contact zone between the White Glacier (left) which is slowly receding, and Thompson Glacier (right), which is advancing (Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago).</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=7" href="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=7" style="font-size: 11px;">www.swisseduc.ch</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=7"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.swisseduc.ch/img/D35B2486-C992-4722-9CD9-24F4FCB8FB1B" alt="Fluctuating glaciers" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=7">Tidewater glaciers fluctuate rapidly, and it is sometimes possible to find both advancing and receding glaciers side-by-side in areas like Alaska. Here Cascade Glacier in the Barry Arm of College Fiord, SE Alaska, shows the dark stripe of a prominent medial moraine</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=11" href="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=11" style="font-size: 11px;">www.swisseduc.ch</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=11"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.swisseduc.ch/img/0C0A2882-476C-461D-93AD-1097A347057A" alt="Fluctuating glaciers" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers04-en.html?id=11">Mackay Glacier, an outlet glacier from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet forms a vertical cliff that pushes up slivers of sea ice as it advances slightly each winter</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F56B2005-156C-4624-8C85-95C4D82F6F66/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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