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nouna slowly moving mass of icetype of:
Definition that contains glacier
- till unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
- iceberg a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
- berg a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
- moulin a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation
- glacial relating to or derived from a glacier
- tarn a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers)
- ablation the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers
- icefall a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall
- neve the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice
- stria any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue