valley glacier
1valley 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… …
2valley 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 …
3Comox Valley Glacier Kings — City Courtenay, British Columbia …
4Rose 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… …
5Crevasse Valley Glacier — (76°46′S 145°30′W / 76.767°S 145.5°W / 76.767; 145.5Coordinates …
6Glacier 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… …
7Glacier — 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… …
8glacier — 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… …
9Glacier-Nationalpark (USA) — Glacier Nationalpark St. Mary Lake mit markanter Bergkette …
10Glacier National Park (U.S.) — Glacier Nationalpark St. Mary Lake mit markanter Bergkette …
