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glacier
(encz) | glacier,ledovec n: Petr Prášek |
Glacier
(gcide) | Glacier \Gla"cier\, n. [F. glacier, fr. glace ice, L. glacies.]
An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of
perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or
valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in
Greenland.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The mass of compacted snow forming the upper part of a
glacier is called the firn, or n['e]v['e]; the glacier
proper consist of solid ice, deeply crevassed where
broken up by irregularities in the slope or direction
of its path. A glacier usually carries with it
accumulations of stones and dirt called moraines, which
are designated, according to their position, as
lateral, medial, or terminal (see Moraine). The
common rate of flow of the Alpine glaciers is from ten
to twenty inches per day in summer, and about half that
in winter.
[1913 Webster]
Glacier theory (Geol.), the theory that large parts of the
frigid and temperate zones were covered with ice during
the glacial, or ice, period, and that, by the agency of
this ice, the loose materials on the earth's surface,
called drift or diluvium, were transported and
accumulated.
[1913 Webster] |
glacier
(wn) | glacier
n 1: a slowly moving mass of ice |
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continental glacier
(encz) | continental glacier, n: |
glacier
(encz) | glacier,ledovec n: Petr Prášek |
glacier lily
(encz) | glacier lily, n: |
glaciers
(encz) | glaciers,ledovce n: pl. Petr Prášek |
polar glacier
(encz) | polar glacier, n: |
Continental glacier
(gcide) | Continental glacier \Continental glacier\
A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading
outward from a central n['e]v['e], or region of accumulation.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Glacier theory
(gcide) | Glacier \Gla"cier\, n. [F. glacier, fr. glace ice, L. glacies.]
An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of
perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or
valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in
Greenland.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The mass of compacted snow forming the upper part of a
glacier is called the firn, or n['e]v['e]; the glacier
proper consist of solid ice, deeply crevassed where
broken up by irregularities in the slope or direction
of its path. A glacier usually carries with it
accumulations of stones and dirt called moraines, which
are designated, according to their position, as
lateral, medial, or terminal (see Moraine). The
common rate of flow of the Alpine glaciers is from ten
to twenty inches per day in summer, and about half that
in winter.
[1913 Webster]
Glacier theory (Geol.), the theory that large parts of the
frigid and temperate zones were covered with ice during
the glacial, or ice, period, and that, by the agency of
this ice, the loose materials on the earth's surface,
called drift or diluvium, were transported and
accumulated.
[1913 Webster] |
alpine glacier
(wn) | Alpine glacier
n 1: a glacier that moves down from a high valley [syn: {Alpine
glacier}, Alpine type of glacier] |
alpine type of glacier
(wn) | Alpine type of glacier
n 1: a glacier that moves down from a high valley [syn: {Alpine
glacier}, Alpine type of glacier] |
continental glacier
(wn) | continental glacier
n 1: a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice |
glacier
(wn) | glacier
n 1: a slowly moving mass of ice |
glacier lily
(wn) | glacier lily
n 1: dogtooth violet of western North America having bright
yellow flowers [syn: glacier lily, snow lily,
Erythronium grandiflorum] |
great mendenhall glacier
(wn) | Great Mendenhall Glacier
n 1: a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska [syn:
Mendenhall Glacier, Great Mendenhall Glacier] |
mendenhall glacier
(wn) | Mendenhall Glacier
n 1: a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska [syn:
Mendenhall Glacier, Great Mendenhall Glacier] |
piedmont glacier
(wn) | Piedmont glacier
n 1: a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley
glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice [syn:
Piedmont glacier, Piedmont type of glacier] |
piedmont type of glacier
(wn) | Piedmont type of glacier
n 1: a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley
glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice [syn:
Piedmont glacier, Piedmont type of glacier] |
polar glacier
(wn) | polar glacier
n 1: a glacier near the Arctic or Antarctic poles |
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