It is one of the larger plateau glaciers in Norway.
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The �ksfjord plateau glacier calved directly into the sea ( " J�kelfjorden " ) until 1900, the last glacier in mainland Norway to do so.
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During the last quarter of the 20th century the Vadret de Lischana plateau glacier covered the 4 km 2 plateau between Piz Lischana and the Lai da Rims.
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The river Josted�la runs through the valley up to its headwaters at the Jostedalsbreen glacier, a plateau glacier which is the European mainland's largest with an area of.
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Somewhat west of the ar�te, near the " Schoberschartl " gap ( ), ends the plateau glacier of the �bergossene Alm, which covers part of the Hochk�nig summit region.
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Although air temperatures at that elevation are always below freezing, solar radiation causes melting on their vertical faces . " There is no pathway for the plateau glaciers other than to continuously retreat once their vertical margins are exposed to solar radiation . " Vertical ice margin walls are a unique characteristic of the summit glaciers and a major place of the shrinkage of the glaciers.