glacier de piedmont

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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

• piedmont — piémont [ pjemɔ̃ ] n. m. • 1908; angl. piedmont glacier (1893); de pied et mont ♦ Géogr. 1 ♦ Glacier de piémont, formé par la réunion de plusieurs glaciers débouchant dans une plaine, où ils présentent une surface presque horizontale. REM. La… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• 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

• piedmont —    (adjective)    Lying or formed at the base of a mountain or mountain range; e.g., a piedmont terrace or a piedmont pediment. (noun) An area, plain, slope, glacier, or other feature at the base of a mountain; e.g., a foothill or a bajada. In… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• piedmont glacier —   a glacier formed when a valley glacier spills from an alpine range onto a lowland plain …   Geography glossary

• Donjek Glacier — Type piedmont valley glacier Location Yukon, Canada Coordinates …   Wikipedia

• Malaspina Glacier — ▪ glacier, Alaska, United States       segment of the St. Elias Mountains (Saint Elias Mountains) glacier system, west of Yakutat Bay in southeastern Alaska, U.S. The most extensive individual ice field in Alaska, it flows for 50 miles (80 km)… …   Universalium

• Moubray Piedmont Glacier — (71°55′S 170°20′E / 71.917°S 170.333°E / 71.917; 170.333) is a piedmont glacier filling the north part of Moubray Bay, formed by the confluence of …   Wikipedia

• Great Mendenhall Glacier — noun a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska • Syn: ↑Mendenhall Glacier • Instance Hypernyms: ↑Piedmont glacier, ↑Piedmont type of glacier • Part Holonyms: ↑Alaska, ↑Last Frontier, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Mendenhall Glacier — noun a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska • Syn: ↑Great Mendenhall Glacier • Instance Hypernyms: ↑Piedmont glacier, ↑Piedmont type of glacier • Part Holonyms: ↑Alaska, ↑Last Frontier, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary