This is a landscape of table-shaped rocks formed by glacial action. On the glacier’s surface, the rate of ice melting slows when it is shaded by large boulders. When a boulder on the ice is shaped like a table, it is called a glacial table. The term glacial table also applies to a moraine boulder transported to the top of another boulder (Fig. 14).
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(2020). Glacial Table Landscape. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_909
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