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The real deserts, however, are these plains of gravel which stretch for miles at the base of some of the glaciers, seemingly devoid of any life at all. They are created not by too little water, but too much! When an eruption occurs beneath the glacier, huge volumes of ice are melted almost instantly. The resulting flood melts its way through the glacier, suddenly bursting forth in a tidal wave of icebergs and dirty water. This creates these vast expanses of wasteland, where no plants can establish themselves.