stagnant glacier

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• 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

• stagnant ice —     a) Glacial ice that is not flowing forward and is not receiving material from an accumulation area.     b) Detached blocks of ice left behind by a retreating glacier, usually buried in a moraine and melting very slowly.    GG …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• Boulder Glacier — Infobox Glacier | glacier name = Boulder Glacier caption = Boulder Glacier on the southeast slope of Mount Baker type = Mountain glacier location = Washington, U.S. coordinates = coord|48|46|18|N|121|48|00|W|region:US WA… …   Wikipedia

• Piedmont glacier — noun a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice • Syn: ↑Piedmont type of glacier • Hypernyms: ↑glacier • Instance Hyponyms: ↑Mendenhall Glacier, ↑Great Mendenhall Glacier * *… …   Useful english dictionary

• Piedmont type of glacier — noun a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice • Syn: ↑Piedmont glacier • Hypernyms: ↑glacier • Instance Hyponyms: ↑Mendenhall Glacier, ↑Great Mendenhall Glacier …   Useful english dictionary

• kame moraine —     a) An end moraine that contains numerous kames.     b) A group of kames along the front of a stagnant glacier, commonly comprising the slumped or erosional remnants of a formerly continuous outwash plain built up over the foot of rapidly… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• esker — noun Etymology: Irish eiscir ridge Date: 1848 a long narrow ridge or mound of sand, gravel, and boulders deposited by a stream flowing on, within, or beneath a stagnant glacier …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• glacial landform — ▪ geology Introduction  any product of flowing ice and meltwater. Such landforms are being produced today in glaciated areas, such as Greenland, Antarctica, and many of the world s higher mountain ranges. In addition, large expansions of present… …   Universalium

• Glaciology — (from Middle French dialect (Franco Provençal): glace , ice ; or Latin: glacies , frost, ice ; and Greek: λόγος, logos , speech lit. to talk about ice ) is the study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice.… …   Wikipedia

• Crevasse — is also a traditional term for a levee breach. Crossing a crevasse on the Easton Glacier, Mount Baker, in the North Cascades, Washington A crevasse is a deep crack in an ice sheet rhys glacier (as opposed to a crevice, which forms in rock).… …   Wikipedia

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