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21Glacier National Park — a national park in NW Montana: glaciers; lakes; forest reserve. 1534 sq. mi. (3970 sq. km). * * * I National preserve, British Columbia, Canada. Lying in the heart of the Selkirk Mountains, within the northern bend of the Columbia River, it was… …
22Glacier mass balance — See also Retreat of glaciers since 1850 Crucial to the survival of a glacier is its mass balance, the difference between accumulation and ablation (melting and sublimation). Climate change may cause variations in both temperature and snowfall,… …
23continental glacier — A glacier of considerable thickness completely covering a large part of a continent or an area of at least 50,000 square km, obscuring the underlying surface, such as the ice sheets covering Antarctica or Greenland. Continental glaciers… …
24Glacier Peak — Infobox Mountain Name = Glacier Peak Photo = Glacier Peak 7118.jpg Caption = East slope of Glacier Peak with Cool (left), Chocolate (descending from summit), North Guardian and Dusty Glaciers (right) Elevation = convert|10541|ft|m|0|lk=on… …
25continental glacier — noun a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice • Hypernyms: ↑glacier • Hyponyms: ↑polar glacier * * * noun : an ice sheet covering a considerable part of a continent compare oceanity * * * continental glacier, a sheet of ice that c …
26Continental Divide (Atlantic/Pacific) — For continental divides in general, see Continental Divide. [ thumb|300px|Continental divides in North America. The Great Divide is in red.] Continental Divide or Great Divide is the name given to the North American portion of the mountainous… …
27Glacier, parque nacional (EE.UU.) — Reserva nacional en el noroeste del estado de Montana en EE.UU. Se ubica en plena naturaleza en las montañas Rocosas junto al límite con Canadá y el parque nacional Waterton Lakes de Canadá. Los dos parques en conjunto componen el parque Waterton …
28glacier — a) A large mass of ice formed, at least in part, on land by the compaction and recrystallization of snow, moving slowly by creep downslope or outward in all directions due to the stress of its own weight, and surviving from year to year.… …
29Continental Divide National Scenic Trail — ▪ path, United States primitive mountain footpath and equestrian trail in the western United States that, when complete, will extend from north to south some 3,100 miles (5,000 km), from the border of Canada to the border of Mexico, through a… …
30glacier — gla•cier [[t]ˈgleɪ ʃər[/t]] n. gel 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… …
