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Glacier tables reveal their secrets

19 Oct 2021 Isabelle Dumé
Photo of a glacier table - a rock balanced on a column of ice
Balancing act Glacier tables like this one form when ice beneath a rock melts more slowly than the ice that surrounds it. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/DCrane)
Researchers in France have pinned down the conditions under which “glacier tables” – large roc

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