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Barry Perkins has vivid recollections of fighting a losing battle last winter with his flat roof and ice-dammed gutters, which sent water leaking into three levels of his Reston townhouse.
When the next monster snowstorm hits the D.C. area, you can be prepared Tracey Longo 2010
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Aluviones occur periodically when water is released abruptly from a previously ice-dammed lake alongside, within, or above a glacier.
Nikolas Kozloff: Alternative Climate Summit, Machu Picchu, and El Niño: Destroyer of Civilizations 2010
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Further support for the Arctic origins hypothesis comes from the fact that large ice-dammed lakes occupied central Siberia about 300,000 years ago.
The most inconvenient seal Darren Naish 2006
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I agree that the huge ice-dammed lakes in western Siberia during previous glaciations were probably involved.
The most inconvenient seal Darren Naish 2006
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Further support for the Arctic origins hypothesis comes from the fact that large ice-dammed lakes occupied central Siberia about 300,000 years ago.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The surroundings are low heavily glaciated PreCambrian gneiss and amphibolite rocks extending some 50 km inland to the ice cap with flanking lateral moraines and ice-dammed lakes; also lakelets, glacial striations, roches moutonées, and perched erratics typical of glaciated landscapes.
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The glacial till in the watershed appears to be either direct deposition from the ice shelf itself (till plain) or sedimentation in ice-dammed lakes (lake plain).
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio 2007
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Following this retreat, various ice-dammed lakes were formed above present lake levels.
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio 2007
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The area where Rennermalm and Gleason are stationed is fed by overflow from an ice-dammed lake that collects meltwater from the glacier's surface.
NYT > Home Page By LAUREN MORELLO of ClimateWire 2011
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Aluviones occur periodically when water is released abruptly from a previously ice-dammed lake alongside, within, or above a glacier.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nikolas Kozloff 2010
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