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Basal Ice
For more information about basal ice see: beginner's guide to basal ice. All these photos are from the ice-sheet margin near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
 

Englacial facies (non-basal) with bubbles and little debris	Stratified facies with debris laminae but few bubbles	Dispersed facies with few bubbles and scattered debris particles and aggregates ("clots") of silt/clay	Dispersed facies with 2cm "clot"
Stratified facies: debris laminae and bubble-free ice. This is actually a close-up of a debris band.	Debris bands intercalated with dispersed facies	Debris bands in summer: melting and mud!	Stratified facies
folded basal ice	looking for the bottom