Glacier - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: glacierBergschrund
The 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...
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...
Continental glacier
A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central neacuteveacute or region of accumulation...
Crevasse
A deep crevice or fissure as in embankment one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided...
Glacial
Pertaining to ice or to its action consisting of ice frozen icy esp pertaining to glaciers as glacial phenomena...
Glacialist
One who attributes the phenomena of the drift in geology to glaciers...
Glacier
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...
Iceman
A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice as among glaciers...
Inexorable
Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer firm determined unyielding unchangeable inflexible relentless of people and impersonal forces as an inexorable prince or tyrant an inexorable judge the inexorable advance of a glacier...
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