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High altitude cirque glacier (B30)
Location: Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
High altitude cirque glacier (B30)

Date taken: July 1991 or 1993
Photo ID: 0078
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High-altitude cirque glacier (B30) that has retreated significantly from its neoglacial maximum. Note the well-developed, ice-cored lateral and end moraines and typical fresh, lichen-free appearance of the outwash and moraine sediments that formed at the neoglacial maximum in the twentieth century.

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