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by Daphne Gonzalvez

 

A glacier's visible edge can present a cliff of ice, 200 to 300 feet in height.

Some of it may be pure blue ice, and other parts muddy. The muddy sections contain rock flour - a fine powder to which rocks have been ground by the mighty power of moving ice.

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