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rivers that forgot how to hurry, carving continents at the speed of patience.
means massive bodies of compacted snow and ice that slowly flow downhill under their own weight.
from from french glace and latin glacies, meaning ice; the word entered english in the 1740s via alpine explorers describing the moving ice they saw in the swiss alps.
speed recordsome surge over 100 feet per day
freshwater sharehold about 69 percent of earth's fresh water
pressure trickcrush air into bubbles that record ancient atmospheres
blue colorice absorbs red light, reflecting only blue