Dead ice is the ice in a part of a glacier or ice sheet that is no longer moving.[1] As the ice melts, it leaves behind a hummocky terrain known as dead-ice moraine. A dead-ice moraine is produced by the accumulation of sediments carried by glaciers that have been left behind from ice melting. Features of such terrain include kettle holes.[2][3] Landscapes forming Veiki moraines in northern Sweden and Canada have been attributed to the errosion of extensive bodies of till-covered dead ice.[4]
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- ^ Bluemle, John P. "Buried Glaciers and Dead-Ice Moraine". North Dakota Notes. North Dakota Geological Survey. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ Lagerbäck, Robert (1988). "The Veiki moraines in northern Sweden - widespread evidence of an Early Weichselian deglaciation". Boreas. 17 (4): 469–486.