I'm not sure of the location, but this is somewhere in the East Greenland fjords. If we zoom in we can see the effects of spalling or exfoliation on the curving rock faces (we see similar features on granite domes and prominent peaks such as El Capitan). But by far the most spectacular feature here is the massive scar left by a single rock face collapse. We don't see much sign of different generations of slope failure here, but there may have been several "events". The essential mechanism is almost always pressure release following deglaciation.
Anyway, if there was a single big event here, it must have been quite something...........
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