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  • Perito Moreno Glacier
    In glacier: Ablation

    …evaporation, wind erosion (deflation), iceberg calving, and the melting of the bottom surfaces of floating ice shelves by warmer seawater.

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  • Perito Moreno Glacier
    In glacier: Tidewater glaciers

    …in the ocean with the calving of icebergs. Known as tidewater glaciers, these glaciers are the seaward extensions of ice streams originating in ice fields, ice caps, or ice sheets. Some tidewater glaciers are similar to surging glaciers in that they flow at high speeds—as much as 35 metres (115…

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