drainage de glacier

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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 — 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 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 mass balance — See also Retreat of glaciers since 1850 Crucial to the survival of a glacier is its mass balance, the difference between accumulation and ablation (melting and sublimation). Climate change may cause variations in both temperature and snowfall,… …   Wikipedia

• 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

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Glacier National Park — This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Glacier National Park. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park, United… …   Wikipedia

• Aletsch Glacier — Grosser Aletschgletscher Lower part of the glacier Type Valley glacier Location …   Wikipedia

• Fedchenko Glacier — The Fedchenko Glacier (Russian Федченко, also transliterated Fedcenko) is a large glacier in the Pamir Mountains of central Tajikistan. The glacier is long and narrow, currently extending for 77 km (47 miles) and covering over 700 km² (270 mi²).… …   Wikipedia

• Jorge Montt Glacier — Infobox Glacier glacier name = Jorge Montt Glacier caption = type = Tidewater glacier location = Chile coordinates = coord|48|22|S|73|30|W|type:glacier area = 464 km² cite web title=P 1386 I Chile and Argentina Wet Andes: Southern Patagonian… …   Wikipedia

• Watkins Glacier — Infobox Glacier | glacier name = Watkins Glacier caption = type = Mountain glacier location = California, U.S. coordinates = coord|41|23|58|N|122|10|35|W|type:glacier region:US CA|display=inline,title area = approx. 0.04 miles² (0.1 km²) length …   Wikipedia

• Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains) — The Scott Glacier (coord|85|45|S|153|0|W|type:glacier region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a major glacier, 120 miles (190 km) long, that drains the East Antarctic Ice Sheet through the Queen Maud Mountains to the Ross Ice Shelf. The Scott Glacier… …   Wikipedia