subglacial melt

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• subglacial melt-out till —    refer to melt out till …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• subglacial till —    Till deposited beneath, in, or by the bottom part of a glacier or ice sheet; subglacial till types include lodgment till, subglacial flow till, and subglacial melt out till.    Compare: till and supraglacial till.    SW & GM …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• Subglacial eruption — A subglacial eruption is a volcanic eruption that has occurred under ice, or under a glacier. Subglacial eruptions can cause dangerous floods, lahars and create hyaloclastite and pillow lava. Only five of these types of eruptions have been… …   Wikipedia

• Subglacial mound — A subglacial mound (SUGM) is a rounded subglacial volcano. These kinds of volcanoes form when lava erupts beneath a thick glacier or ice sheet.cite web | title = Types of volcanoes | work = Volcanoes of Canada | publisher = Geological Survey of… …   Wikipedia

• melt-out till —    A till that may be either subglacial or supraglacial in origin. Melt out till forms by slow melting of debris rich stagnant ice, but without secondary flow processes. The fabric and clast orientations, imparted by ice processes, remain mostly… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• Overdeepening — Sognefjord in Norway, the second longest fjord in the world, shows characteristic overdeepening. Overdeepening is a characteristic of basins and valleys eroded by glaciers. An overdeepened valley profile is often eroded to depths which are… …   Wikipedia

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• 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

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• Mount Edziza volcanic complex — Mount Edziza, one of the main volcanoes of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex Elevation …   Wikipedia