Glacier - Law Dictionary Search Results
Glacier
Matched in: Term Glacier
Continental glacier
Matched in: Term Continental glacier
Bergschrund
crevasse or series of crevasses usually deep and often broad frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier about where the neacuteveacute field joins the valley portion of the glacier
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VerbarNeacuteveacute
The upper part of a glacier above the limit of perpetual snow See Glacier
VerbarSeacuterac
A pinnacle of ice among the crevasses of a glacier also one of the blocks into which a glacier breaks on a steep grade
Crevasse
crevice or fissure as in embankment one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided
Inexorable
people and impersonal forces as an inexorable prince or tyrant an inexorable judge the inexorable advance of a glacier
Moraine
An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier
Postglacial
Pleistocene period or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality
Glacial
Pertaining to ice or to its action consisting of ice frozen icy esp pertaining to glaciers as glacial phenomena
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