Detail of Shear Plane, Casner Glacier, AK, 1996
The plane runs from upper left to lower right. Two features indicate this is a shear plane: 1) above the plane the foliation in the ice slopes to the right, but below the plane the foliation in the ice is nearly vertical and 2) just above the ice ax is a small shrub trapped between the two ice layers.
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