Tasman Glacier, New Zealand

Massive boulder on lower Tasman Glacier, New Zealand (photo 29.1.2008, Heather Purdie, University of Canterbury, New Zealand). Although the boulder is located in an area of mostly debris-covered ice, it has formed a classical glacier table with an ice pedestal several metres high. The boulder is clearly leaning towards the left, i.e. north, towards the direction of maximum incoming solar radiation.

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