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bergschrund
A deep, wide crevasse or a series of parallel narrow crevasses in a glacier, produced by tension within the ice, often at the point where the moving ice pulls away from the rock slope at the head of the glacier cirque.
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• GEOLOGY AND PLANETARY SCIENCESource: U.S. Geological Survey
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