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Glaciers
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. Glaciers slowly deform and flow under stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features. They also abrade rock and debris from their substrate to create landforms such as cirques, moraines, or fjords. Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that forms on the surface of bodies of water.
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Хто сказав, що ви холодні і ворожі, мої бідолашні скупчення криги? Я знав вас і в штиль і в шторм, і стверджую, що ви дотепні і доброзичливі. Химерний похмурий гумор у ваших зрізаних вершинах, що набувають фантастичних форм. Ваші крижані поля непорочні й чисті, навіть коли боляче "кусаються". Так, ви артистично непорочні й малювничі, але надто часто сором'язлива завіса туману приховувала ваші чари.
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― Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure
― Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure
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Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.
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