Glacier table
When a glacier melts , it can happen that under a (mostly larger and flat) stone the glacier ice, protected from the sun, remains frozen for some time and the stone slab remains in the shape of a table over the rest of the glacier surface.
The result is an ice hill that carries a stone on top and lasts as a glacier table for some time until the ice finally melts in one place and the table collapses due to weight or other external influences.
Stone fairy chimneys also have a stone that protects the substructure .
literature
- Reto Florin, Andreas Bauder: Glacier tables, median moraines and packed glaciers . In: The Alps . No. 7 , 2005, p. 30-32 .
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