Frost Glacier (67°5′S 129°0′E / 67.083°S 129.000°E / -67.083; 129.000) is a channel glacier flowing to the head of Porpoise Bay, Antarctica. It was...
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Mount Zinkovich (redirect from Mount Frost)
480 ft) high, standing 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Mount Frost at the north side of the head of Silk Glacier in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. Mount Zinkovich...
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Bond Glacier Conger Glacier De Haven Glacier Dibble Glacier Dibble Iceberg Tongue DuBeau Glacier Elliott Glacier Freeman Glacier Frost Glacier Gilchrist...
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-81.250; 159.117. A glacier flowing southeast into Jorda Glacier. Mount Frost and Mount Coley are located at its head. The glacier was named in honor of...
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coordinates) The Hull Glacier flows in a northwest direction to Hull Bay on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. It passes Smoot Rock, Frost Cliff and Mount Steinfeld...
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Glaciology (category Glaciers)
Latin glacies 'frost, ice' and Ancient Greek λόγος (logos) 'subject matter'; lit. 'study of ice') is the scientific study of glaciers, or, more generally...
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Snow line (section Glacier equilibrium line)
in the world below the snow line is Ojos del Salado. Frost line Frost line (astrophysics) Glacier High Alps Ice cap climate Tree line Charlesworth J.K...
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Ice calving (redirect from Glacier calving)
Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. It is a form of ice ablation or...
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Cryoseism (redirect from Frost quake)
"Possible epicenter of frost quake found in northwest schoolyard". CTV News Calgary. Archived from the original on 2017-07-26. "Alaska Glacier Tours – Know What...
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Frost weathering is a collective term for several mechanical weathering processes induced by stresses created by the freezing of water into ice. The term...
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Nótt (night). The names Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi mean "shining mane" and "frost mane", respectively. Skinfaxi pulls Dagr's chariot across the sky every...
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Ice (redirect from Glacier ice)
glaciers and ice sheets. As snowflakes and hail, ice is a common form of precipitation, and it may also be deposited directly by water vapor as frost...
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proper English term. A cavity formed within ice (as in a glacier) is properly called a glacier cave. Ice caves occur as static ice caves, such as Peña...
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like the arms of a mother (ama) protecting her child, and the hanging glacier thought of as the dablam, the traditional double-pendant containing pictures...
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Himalayas (redirect from Himalayan glacier)
highest glaciers. The Gangotri which is 32 km (20 mi) long and is one of the largest glaciers, is one of the sources of the Ganges. The Himalayan glaciers show...
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Mount Kilimanjaro (section Glaciers)
Glacier Barranco Glacier Credner Glacier Furtwängler Glacier Great Penck Glacier List of volcanoes in Tanzania Little Penck Glacier Rebmann Glacier Sacred...
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debris deposited along the sides of a glacier. The unconsolidated debris can be deposited on top of the glacier by frost shattering of the valley walls or...
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Mount Hood (redirect from Eliot glacier)
attracts an estimated 10,000 climbers a year. The peak is home to 12 named glaciers and snowfields. Mount Hood is considered the Oregon volcano most likely...
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Ice lens (section Common frost heaving)
play a key role in frost induced heaving of soils and fracture of bedrock, which are fundamental to weathering in cold regions. Frost heaving creates debris...
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outlet glaciers, valley glaciers, cirque glaciers, tidewater glaciers and ice streams. Ice streams are a type of glacier and many of them have "glacier" in...
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"white box" set (1974), including the hill giant, the stone giant, the frost giant, the fire giant, and the cloud giant. The storm giant first appears...
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Ice cap (redirect from Plateau glacier)
gouging and other glacial erosional features become present upon the glacier's retreat. Many lakes, such as the Great Lakes in North America, as well...
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Scree (section Interaction with glaciers)
derived from the melting waters of a glacier and is hidden under a thick layer of scree. Debris cover on a glacier affects the energy balance and, therefore...
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ventures to the Winter Woods and meets her twin sister, Periwinkle, who is a frost fairy. The film was directed by Peggy Holmes and co-directed by Bobs Gannaway...
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Weathering (redirect from Frost wedging)
conditions are unusual enough that frost wedging is unlikely to be the dominant process of frost weathering. Frost wedging is most effective where there...
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Promethei Terra (section Glacier-like forms)
probably glaciers or the remains of old glaciers because they look so much like glaciers on the Earth. HiRISE image showing thin glacier on left. Glacier on...
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terrain Glacier – Persistent body of ice that moves downhill under its own weight Glacier cave – Cave formed within the ice of a glacier Glacier foreland –...
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Glaze (ice) (redirect from Glazed frost)
Glaze or glaze ice, also called glazed frost or verglas, is a smooth, transparent and homogeneous ice coating occurring when freezing rain or drizzle...
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The fourth side forms the lip, threshold or sill, the side at which the glacier flowed away from the cirque. Many glacial cirques contain tarns dammed...
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Plucking (glaciation) (redirect from Plucking (glaciers))
occurs in a type of glacier called a "valley glacier". As a glacier moves down a valley, friction causes the basal ice of the glacier to melt and infiltrate...
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