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Glacier Precipitation of ice crystals, isolated or agglomerated, falling from a cloud. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier (1) Atmospheric precipitation of ice crystals. (2) Loose and porous aggregation of ice crystals or their fragments on any surface. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier Precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing [deposition] of the water vapor in t he air. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier (1) an ice particle formed by sublimation of vapor in the atmosphere (2) a collection of loosely bonded ice crystals deposited from the atmosphere; high density snow (greater than 550 kilograms per cu bic meter; 34 pounds per cubic foot) is called firn if it is older than one year. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier Frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent ice crystals in complex branched hexagonal form. It most often falls from stratiform clouds, but can fall as snow showers from cumuliform ones. At temperatures than -5 GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier Ice crystals precipitated from the atmosphere, mainly in complex hexagon (plate, column or needle) form, often agglomerated into snowflakes GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier Ice crystals precipitated from the atmosphere, mainly in complex hexagon (plate, column or needle) form, often agglomerated into Snowflakes. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier No definition provided GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier advance The forward movement of the snout (toe) of a glacier following successive years of positive mass balance (q.v.). GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier bed Bedrock, or debris, over which the glacier flows. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier berg An irregularly shaped iceberg. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier berg An irregularly shaped iceberg. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier breeze Shallow wind which blows, by day and night, down the slopes of a glacier. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier cave A cave formed in or under a glacier, typically by running water. Steam or high heat flow can also form glacier caves. Also called Ice Cave. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier cave A cave of ice, usually underneath a glacier and formed by meltwater; cave entrances are often enlarged near a glacier terminus by warm winds; most common on stagnant portions of glaciers. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier complex A number of contiguous glaciers; a generic term for all collections of glaciers that meet at divides. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier dammed lake The lake formed when a glacier flows across the mouth of an adjoining valley and forms an ice dam. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier dammed lake In hydrologic terms, the lake formed when a glacier flows across the mouth of an adjoining valley and forms an ice dam. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacier dammed lake Body of water which accumulates behind ice sheets or in mountain valleys dammed by valley glaciers. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
Glacieret A very small glacier. GCW Glossary 2023.03.27
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