piedmont-type glacier

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• 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 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

• 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

• 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

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

• Endeavour Piedmont Glacier — (coord|77|23|S|166|40|E|type:glacier region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a piedmont glacier, 6 miles (10 km) long and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, between the southwest part of Mount Bird and Micou Point, Ross Island. In association with the names of… …   Wikipedia

• Prospect Glacier — (coord|69|32|S|67|20|W|type:glacier region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a glacier between Kinnear Mountains and Mayer Hills, flowing north into Forster Ice Piedmont on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. First roughly surveyed in 1936 by the… …   Wikipedia

• Albrecht Penck Glacier — (coord|76|40|S|162|20|E|type:glacier region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a glacier between the Fry Glacier and Evans Piedmont Glacier, draining northeast toward Tripp Bay on the coast of Victoria Land. First charted by the British Antarctic… …   Wikipedia

• Airy Glacier — The Airy Glacier (coord|69|13|S|66|20|W|type:glacier region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a glacier 20 miles (32 km) long and 6 miles (10 km) wide, flowing west to the northeast portion of Forster Ice Piedmont, near the west coast of the Antarctic… …   Wikipedia