Grey Glacier, Chile

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• Gray-brown patches of debris from adjacent mountainsides color the surface of the easternmost lobe of the glacier (image top)

• soil and rock debris that form along the edges of a glacier as it flows downhill across the landscape

• Southern Patagonian Icefield of Chile

• Grey Glacier located in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile.

• terminates in three distinct lobes into Grey Lake

• form as a result of stress between slower- and faster-moving ice within the glacier.

• The crevasse patterns

• rugged surface

• All three lobes have retreated

• loses ice from its terminus as it enters the water, a process known as calving

• ice loss has been greater than ice replenishment.