movement of glacier

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• glacier cave —    1. A cave carved out of the ice inside a glacier, not to be confused with an ice cave. Passages are formed by meltwater descending from the glacier surface via crevasses, or by melting on the glacier base. Through caves may connect sinkholes… …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• 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 — 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 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 View controversy — The Glacier View controversy was a major event in the history of the Seventh day Adventist Church when church leaders (the Sanctuary Review Committee) met at Glacier View Ranch in Colorado, United States in 1980 to discuss scholar Desmond Ford s… …   Wikipedia

• Glacier terminus — A glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating. The… …   Wikipedia

• Glacier cave — A glacier cave is a cave formed within the ice of a glacier. Glacier caves are often called ice caves, but this term is properly used to describe bedrock caves that contain year round ice.Most glacier caves are started by water running through or …   Wikipedia

• Challenger Glacier — Type cirque/tidewater Location Heard Island, Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia Coordinates …   Wikipedia

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• Downes Glacier — Type tidewater Location Heard Island, Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia Coordinates …   Wikipedia