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Hanging valleys are common in fiords. These are valleys perched high above a larger valley or the fiord itself, formed during glaciation by a larger glacier ‘cutting off’ the end of smaller glaciers where they met.
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www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/land-and-freshwater/land/g...
www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/land-and-freshwater/land/geology/fiords/
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fjord or fiord (fyôrd), steep-sided inlet of the sea characteristic of glaciated regions. Fjords probably resulted from the scouring by glaciers of valleys formed by any of several processes, including faulting and erosion by running water.
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www.answers.com/topic/fjord
www.answers.com/topic/fjord
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Fiords are drowned lower reaches of valleys formed by glacial action which gives them characteristic features of deep basins separated from the open ocean by submarine sills. ... This outgoing surface layer mixes with the underlying seawater to give an up-fiord estuarine-type circulation pattern.
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www.mbari.org/seminars/2000/summer2000/jul26_peake.html
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New Zealand, Summer 2006: Photo 25 / 58...
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www.tobias-thierer.de/albums/nz06_summer/page_0546.html
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Fjords are in areas which were heavily glaciated during ice ages, and many of them are still fed by glaciers. They were carved by flowing ice.
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Somewhere back in the late 90’s brothers Barton and Hayden Strom fresh faced and a love for electronic music formed the soon to be world famous outside New Zealand – ANTIX. ... As FIORD unfolds, their sound reeks of a new approach, producing a textured techno rhythm far hotter than any branding iron ready to stamp...
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www.myspace.com/antixfiord
www.myspace.com/antixfiord
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Since 2006, Engineer Fabian Baumann and Designer S–nke Hoof have been working together from their Berlin-based design studio Formfjord. In addition to furniture, lighting and accessories, they enjoy working in various fields: Each project holds inspiration for another.
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www.formfjord.com/
www.formfjord.com/
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Brief descriptive sentence here. ... A sulfur spring discharges from a glacier in Borup Fiord Pass; In this photo from the 2000 field season, a 4-meter-high "flowstone" mound of sulfur and gypsum has formed beneath an outward-flaring horizontal channel.
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planetary.org/explore/topics/planetary_analogs/borup_fi...
planetary.org/explore/topics/planetary_analogs/borup_fiord.html
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Like all the crested penguins the Fiordland Penguins have a long droopy crest of bright yellow feathers starting at the bill and extending back behind the eyes. They are very much ... They are shy and timid and live and breed on the rugged west and southwest coastlands of the South Island of New Zealand, ... AROUND THE WORLD...
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www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/fiord.html
www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/fiord.html
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