glacier outburst flood

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• glacier outburst flood —    A sudden, often annual, release of meltwater from a glacier or glacier damned lake sometimes resulting in a catastrophic flood, formed by melting of a drainage channel or buoyant lifting of ice by water or by subglacial volcanic activity; also …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• Outburst flood — In geomorphology, an outburst flood, which is a type of megaflood, is a high magnitude, low frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of water.[1][2] During the last deglaciation, numerous glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) were… …   Wikipedia

• Glacial lake outburst flood — A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) can occur when a lake contained by a glacier (called Jökulhlaup if it was a subglacial lake, marginal lake drainage if it was dammed between ice and the ground) or a terminal moraine dam fails. This can happen …   Wikipedia

• Glacier retreat — or glacial retreat is discussed in several articles, depending on the time frame of interest, and whether the climatological process or individual glaciers are being considered. Articles on these topics include:*Retreat of glaciers since 1850… …   Wikipedia

• glacier — glaciered, adj. /glay sheuhr/, n. an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of… …   Universalium

• Glacier — This article is about the geological formation. For other uses, see Glacier (disambiguation). The Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram, Kashmir, Northern Pakistan. At 62 kilometres (39 mi) in length, it is one of the longest alpine glaciers on… …   Wikipedia

• Hubbard Glacier — Infobox Glacier | glacier name = Hubbard Glacier caption = Hubbard Glacier type = Tidewater/Mountain glacier location = Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska, U.S., Yukon, Canada coordinates = coord|60|00|54|N|139|29|31|W|type:glacier… …   Wikipedia

• Grasshopper Glacier (Wyoming) — Infobox Glacier | glacier name = Grasshopper Glacier (Wyoming) caption = type = Mountain glacier location = Wyoming, United States coordinates = coord|43|14|19|N|109|39|40|W|type:glacier region:US WY area = length = 1.5 mile (2.4 km) thickness =… …   Wikipedia

• Knik Glacier — [Interviews with Pete Brown, Don Karabelnikoff other private pilots.] . Lake George Lake George a glacial lake formed near the face of the glacier received national recognition by the National Natural Landmark (NNL) Program. Lake George was… …   Wikipedia

• Challenger Glacier — Type cirque/tidewater Location Heard Island, Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia Coordinates …   Wikipedia

• Compton Glacier — Type cirque/tidewater Location Heard Island, Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia Coordinates …   Wikipedia