Okjökull
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okj-kull-164-4372322
title:
Okjökull
text:
Okjökull was a glacier in western Iceland on top of the shield volcano Ok. Ok is located north-east of Reykjavík. The glacier was declared dead in 2014 by glaciologist Oddur Sigurðsson due to its loss of thickness. Ice crystals in glaciers collapse under their own weight to form solid ice capable of movement due to central gravitational pressure only when the ice is around forty to fifty metres thick. By 2017 its thickness no longer met this criteria and was less than the 2015 area of 0.7 km (0
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Former glacier in western Iceland
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okj%C3%B6kull
date created:
2019-07-24T22:58:44Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T20:59:30Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Ok_glacier_2003.jpg","width":1984,"height":1180}
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13
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