glacier sheet

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• Glacier morphology — Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors. Types of glaciers range from massive ice sheets, such as the Greenland ice sheet or those in Antarctica, to small cirque… …   Wikipedia

• Glacier ice accumulation — occurs through accumulation of snow and other frozen precipitation, as well as through other means including rime ice (freezing of water vapor on the glacier surface), avalanching from hanging glaciers on cliffs and mountainsides above, and re… …   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

• Glacier National Park — a national park in NW Montana: glaciers; lakes; forest reserve. 1534 sq. mi. (3970 sq. km). * * * I National preserve, British Columbia, Canada. Lying in the heart of the Selkirk Mountains, within the northern bend of the Columbia River, it was… …   Universalium

• glacier — Synonyms and related words: Dry Ice, berg, calf, cryosphere, firn, floe, frazil, frozen water, glaciation, glacieret, glaze, glazed frost, granular snow, ground ice, growler, ice, ice banner, ice barrier, ice belt, ice cave, ice cubes, ice dike,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• glacier — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. ice floe, floe, ice sheet, iceberg, berg, glacial mass, snow slide, icecap, ice field, ice stream, ice torrent, glacial table, névé, firn, sérac, mer de glace (French). II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. ice mass, snow mass,… …   English dictionary for students

• Greenland ice sheet — The Greenland Ice Sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1.71 million km², roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometers long in a… …   Wikipedia

• Ice sheet dynamics — describe the motion within large bodies of ice, such those currently on Greenland and Antarctica. Ice motion is dominated by the movement of glaciers, whose gravity driven activity is controlled by two main variable factors: the temperature and… …   Wikipedia

• Pine Island Glacier — coord|75|10|S|100|0|W|display=title is a broad glacier flowing west northwest along the south side of the Hudson Mountains into Pine Island Bay, Amundsen Sea. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and USN air photos …   Wikipedia

• Thwaites Glacier — (coord|75|30|S|106|45|W|type:glacier) is a broad glacier flowing into the Amundsen Sea about 30 miles (50 km) east of Mount Murphy, Marie Byrd Land. Though imperfectly delineated, the glacier has tremendous flow and in January 1966 had formed a… …   Wikipedia