Due to the undulating glacier bed, the hard and brittle ice in the upper layer of a moving glacier will develop crevasses under tension. A column-like or peak-like ice body can form between two crevasses; this type of landscape is called an ice column landscape (Fig. 4).
Ice column landscape, Tibetan Plateau
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(2020). Ice Column 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_1128
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