icebergs

• “_A glacier running down a steep narrow canyon and out into the deep water, and forming icebergs at its point, would maintain its slender, tongue-like form, and drop its débris on each side, forming parallel ridges, and would not form a terminal moraine because the materials not dropped previously would be carried off by icebergs_.”

  The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter

• “The same people who used to fish now harvest icebergs from a floating barge, using a grapple crane to break off chunks of ice.”

  Archive 2006-10-01

• “The former vice president’s film shows dramatic film of big chunks of ice breaking off glaciers, but the “calving” of icebergs is a normal, natural process involved in the growth of glaciers into the sea.”

  Think Progress » Bush Brags He Kept Campaign Promise on Global Warming, Forgets Pledge To Regulate CO2

• “Icebergs are not melting because the ocean is warming up, but because the icebergs are actually expanding into warming waters.”

  Man made global warming? No way!

• “Our icebergs are the hidden emotions that we and others forget about until we bump into them.”

  Simon & Schuster: Nurturing Spirituality in Children

• “Large bodies of ice, called icebergs, filled up the valleys between high mountains, so dark as, when contrasted with the snow, to appear black.”

  The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

• “Great masses of ice called icebergs and ice floes are floating through this ocean.”

  Where We Live A Home Geography

• “_ These, which indeed have often been called icebergs, are distinguished from true icebergs not only by their size, but also by the way in which they are formed.”

  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II

• “I only call the icebergs the principal passengers, because they take up so much room; for thousands and millions of other travellers come with them, -- from the white bears asleep on the bergs, and brought away quite against their will, to the tiniest little creatures rocking in the cradles of the ripples, or clinging to the delicate branches of the sea-mosses.”

  The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

• “The icebergs were a gemlike radiant blue, contrasting with the charcoal-colored mountainsides behind them.”

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