zone d'ablation d'un glacier

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• Glacier de vallée — Glacier Pour les articles homonymes, voir Glacier (homonymie). Glacier Briksdal, Norvège, 2 juillet 2006 Un glacier …   Wikipédia en Français

• Glacier — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Glacier (homonymie). Le glacier d Aletsch (Suisse), le plus grand glacier des Alpes …   Wikipédia en Français

• Glacier ice accumulation — occurs through accumulation of snow and other frozen precipitation, as well as through other means including rime ice (freezing of water vapor on the glacier surface), avalanching from hanging glaciers on cliffs and mountainsides above, and re… …   Wikipedia

• Glacier Meren — Vue aérienne des glaciers du Puncak Jaya et du Nga Pulu en 1972 avec le glacier Meren à gauche de l image. Latitude Longitude …   Wikipédia en Français

• 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

• Ablation zone — On a glacier, the ablation zone, zone of ablation or zone of wastage is the area in which annual loss of snow through melting, evaporation, iceberg calving and sublimation exceeds annual gain of snow and ice on the surface. Of these, melting is… …   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 Carstensz — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Carstensz. Glacier Carstensz Vu …   Wikipédia en Français

• ablation — [ ablasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • XIIIe; lat. ablatio 1 ♦ Chir. Action d enlever. ⇒ amputation, excision, exérèse; ectomie. Pratiquer l ablation d un rein. 2 ♦ (1885; probablt repris à l angl. ablation [1860 ]) Géol. Perte de substance subie par un relief. L… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• 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