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Image: Glacial rebound on Southhampton Island, Nunavut

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Description: Some of the raised beaches of Southampton Island, Nunavut from above where this scrambled landform extends a long ways inland from present-day coastline. Much of the Arctic is still !! rebounding from the removal of the last continental ice-sheet. Throughout the past 10,000 years, the local tide was just enough to rework (but not erase) each and every emergent strand line. Today's aerial skein of snow-enhanced strand lines courtesy of the spring thaw. Taken thru the window on a northern airline.
Title: Glacial rebound on Southhampton Island, Nunavut
Credit: snakes n' ladders
Author: Mike Beauregard from Nunavut, Canada
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