valley glacier — noun : a glacier usually originating in a cirque at a valley head or in a plateau ice cap and flowing downward between the walls of a valley * * * valley glacier, a glacier that occupies a mountain valley, as in the Alps and the mountains of the… … Useful english dictionary
valley glacier — a glacier which extends from a larger body of ice, often in a corrie, and moves downslope, initially following existing river channels but increasingly cutting its own bigger, straighter trough … Geography glossary
Comox Valley Glacier Kings — City Courtenay, British Columbia … Wikipedia
Rose Valley Glacier — (Bulgarian: Lednik Rozova Dolina led nik ro zo va do li na) is a glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 6 km in SE NW direction, and 3.5 km in SW NE direction. It is named after the Valley of Roses in… … Wikipedia
Crevasse Valley Glacier — (76°46′S 145°30′W / 76.767°S 145.5°W / 76.767; 145.5Coordinates … Wikipedia
Glacier morphology — Glacier morphology, or the form a glacier takes, is influenced by temperature, precipitation, topography, and other factors. Types of glaciers range from massive ice sheets, such as the Greenland ice sheet or those in Antarctica, to small cirque… … Wikipedia
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
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-Nationalpark (USA) — Glacier Nationalpark St. Mary Lake mit markanter Bergkette … Deutsch Wikipedia
Glacier National Park (U.S.) — Glacier Nationalpark St. Mary Lake mit markanter Bergkette … Deutsch Wikipedia
Glacier Point — is a viewpoint above Yosemite Valley, in California, USA. It is located on the south wall of Yosemite Valley at an elevation of convert|7214|ft|m, convert|3200|ft|m above Curry Village. The point offers a superb view of Yosemite National Park,… … Wikipedia