Victoria Lower Glacier, Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Ice-pushed ridge of wind-blown sand. The irregular shadowed face is a former ice-contact surface and is underlain by dead glacier ice. In conditions of melt, water drains along the front of the Victoria Lower Glacier, forming a shallow canyon into which ice blocks fall as the stream undercuts the ice cliffs.

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