ice margin
1ice-margin complex — An assemblage of landforms constructed proximal to a relatively static, rapidly wasting continental glacial margin. Constituent landforms can include fosse, head of outwash, ice contact slope, ice contact delta, kame, kame moraine, kettle,… …
2ice-contact slope — A steep escarpment of predominantly glaciofluvial sediment that was deposited against a wall of glacier ice, marking the position of a relatively static ice margin; an irregular scarp against which glacier ice once rested. Compare: head of… …
3ice hockey — a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each, the object being to score goals by shooting a puck into the opponents cage using a stick with a wooden blade set at an obtuse angle to the shaft. [1880 85] * * * Game played on an ice… …
4Ice Skating — ▪ 2009 Introduction Figure Skating. Canada came away as the biggest winner at the 2008 International Skating Union (ISU) world figure skating championships, held in March in Göteborg, Swed., by capturing a gold, a silver, and a bronze… …
5Ice Age National Scientific Reserve — The Ice Age National Scientific Reserve collects nine sites in Wisconsin which preserve geological evidence of glaciation. The sites, mostly preexisting Wisconsin state parks or other protected areas, are administered by the Wisconsin Department… …
6ice front — noun : the lower or outer margin of a glacier * * * the forward section or seaward edge of an ice shelf. [1855 60] * * * ice front noun The front face of a glacier • • • Main Entry: ↑ice * * * n. the lower edge of a glacier …
7ice barrier — noun : the outer margin of the antarctic ice sheet …
8Greenland ice sheet — The Greenland Ice Sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1.71 million km², roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometers long in a… …
9North Dakota Fighting Sioux women's ice hockey — North Dakota women s ice hockey Current season …
10Greenland Ice Sheet — Single ice cap, Greenland. Covering about 80% of the island of Greenland, it is the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere, second only to the Antarctic. It extends 1,570 mi (2,530 km) north to south, has a maximum width of 680 mi (1,094 km) …
