Dead-ice occurs when a glacier or ice sheet ceases to move and melts in situ. After the ice has melted it leaves behind a hummocky terrain produced by the deposition of glacio-fluvial sediments and ablation till as the ice melted. Such features include kettle holes. Landscape forming Veiki moraines in northern Sweden and Canada have been ascribed ...
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any part of a glacier which has ceased to flow; dead ice is usually covered with moraine .
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