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Dear GLIMS folks,</div>
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I am not sure whether this attachment will go through to the GLIMS list. I prepared this</div>
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to address an issue that has arisen many times in GLIMS discussions over the past 20 years, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">including at today's GLIMS/RGI virtual meeting.
A question was raised "Is a rock glacier a type of glacier?" There are different views, and as of today's meeting it became</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">much more of an academic point, as it was reconfirmed that rock glaciers will be included</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">in the GLIMS database. (This is as it has been for quite a few years, but the matter keeps coming up). </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">This presentation gives my views on the matter, and it also provides a schematic concept</span></div>
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that can be put to use. Maybe not now in the GLIMS database, but whenever the detailed</div>
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dynamical characteristics and rock-ice composition of glaciers comes up in research.</div>
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Cheers,</div>
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Jeff Kargel</div>
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