Piedmont glacier — noun a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice • Syn: ↑Piedmont type of glacier • Hypernyms: ↑glacier • Instance Hyponyms: ↑Mendenhall Glacier, ↑Great Mendenhall Glacier * *… … Useful english dictionary
piedmont glacier — a glacier formed when a valley glacier spills from an alpine range onto a lowland plain … Geography glossary
Moubray Piedmont Glacier — (71°55′S 170°20′E / 71.917°S 170.333°E / 71.917; 170.333) is a piedmont glacier filling the north part of Moubray Bay, formed by the confluence of … Wikipedia
Oates Piedmont Glacier — (76°25′S 162°35′E / 76.417°S 162.583°E / 76.417; 162.583) is an extensive lowland piedmont ice sheet east of the Kirkwood Range, occupying the whole of the coastal platform between the Fry and … Wikipedia
Endeavour Piedmont Glacier — (coord|77|23|S|166|40|E|type:glacier region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a piedmont glacier, 6 miles (10 km) long and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, between the southwest part of Mount Bird and Micou Point, Ross Island. In association with the names of… … Wikipedia
piedmont — piémont [ pjemɔ̃ ] n. m. • 1908; angl. piedmont glacier (1893); de pied et mont ♦ Géogr. 1 ♦ Glacier de piémont, formé par la réunion de plusieurs glaciers débouchant dans une plaine, où ils présentent une surface presque horizontale. REM. La… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Piedmont type of glacier — noun a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice • Syn: ↑Piedmont glacier • Hypernyms: ↑glacier • Instance Hyponyms: ↑Mendenhall Glacier, ↑Great Mendenhall Glacier … Useful english dictionary
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
Malaspina Glacier — ▪ glacier, Alaska, United States segment of the St. Elias Mountains (Saint Elias Mountains) glacier system, west of Yakutat Bay in southeastern Alaska, U.S. The most extensive individual ice field in Alaska, it flows for 50 miles (80 km)… … Universalium
piedmont — (adjective) Lying or formed at the base of a mountain or mountain range; e.g., a piedmont terrace or a piedmont pediment. (noun) An area, plain, slope, glacier, or other feature at the base of a mountain; e.g., a foothill or a bajada. In… … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
Great Mendenhall Glacier — noun a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska • Syn: ↑Mendenhall Glacier • Instance Hypernyms: ↑Piedmont glacier, ↑Piedmont type of glacier • Part Holonyms: ↑Alaska, ↑Last Frontier, ↑ … Useful english dictionary