Assertion: glacier's ice | /r/CapableOf | melt the surface
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text: Glaciers in temperate zones tend to move the most quickly because the ice along the base of the glacier can melt and lubricate the surface.
text: Either the ice melts at the surface which sends torrents of water down to the surrounding seas or huge chunks of ice break off from the margins and float away as icebergs, gradually to melt.
text: And as ice melts on the surface, the water drills through the ice sheet and comes down at the bottom of the glacier.
text: When the deep ice melts out to the surface, it may, conversely, preserve the higher pressure of the included air, which in cold regions reaches 10 to 14 bars.