Definition of Alpine glacier

1. Noun. A glacier that moves down from a high valley.

Exact synonyms: Alpine Type Of Glacier
Generic synonyms: Glacier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alpine Glacier

Alpha cells
Alpha tests
Alphard
Alpheratz
Alphonse
Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Capone
Alphonsine
Alphonso
Alpine
Alpine anemone
Alpine besseya
Alpine celery pine
Alpine enchanter's nightshade
Alpine fir
Alpine glacier (current term)
Alpine golden chain
Alpine lady fern
Alpine lift
Alpine mouse-ear
Alpine scurvy
Alpine type of glacier
Alpine woodsia
Alpinia
Alpinia Zerumbet
Alpinia galanga
Alpinia officinalis
Alpinia officinarum
Alpinia purpurata
Alpinia speciosa

Literary usage of Alpine glacier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"Alpine glacier. (HM Skae.) glaciers are washed by numberless little streams ; great avalanches, wreathed in snow-smoke, rush downwards with a roar like ..."

2. Glaciers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and by Israel Cook Russell (1904)
"IDEAL SKETCH MAP op AX Alpine glacier, SHOWING LATERAL, MEDIAL, AND TERMINAL MORAINES. lobes on the outer margin of such glaciers unite, ..."

3. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1907)
"This is merely a lobe descending from the interior ice-fields, not an alpine glacier of the type illustrated by the Moser and Miller lobes. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1877)
"... the force that propels the Alpine glacier. Yet in several months the strain caused no fracture of the ice; no fluxion of particles to change its form; ..."

5. Everyday Science by William Henry Snyder (1919)
"... A typical Alpine glacier. kind is called a valley glacier or an Alpine glacier, because first studied in the Alps. Although the moving ice conforms to ..."

6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"we should go at the outset into the heart of Switzerland, and stand before an Alpine glacier, which, like some awful prehistoric monster, creeps forth in ..."

7. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... and stand before an Alpine glacier, which, like some awful prehistoric monster, creeps forth in menace from a sea of ice, supplied from distant peaks, ..."

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