Figure 4b. Dropstone with attached barnacle (Balanus balanus) basal plates and large barnacle buried in mud next to small dropstone. Dropstones melt out of floating icebergs that contain glacial debris. Icebergs form when large chunks of ice fall off the glacier margin into the ocean, a process called calving.

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Last updated on October 6, 2005

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