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Definition of Seracs
1. serac [n] - See also: serac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seracs
Literary usage of Seracs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man and the Glacial Period by George Frederick Wright, Henry Williamson Haynes (1892)
"e, et show fissures and seracs where the glacier tending from moves down the
steeper portion of its incline ; «, «, ,, . , show the vertical structure ..."
2. Physical Geography, Or The Terraqueous Globe and Its Phenomena by William Desborough Cooley (1876)
"seracs.—Tables and Veined Structure.—Dirt-bands.—Number and Size of Glaciers—their
Movements—Variation. ..."
3. The Ascent of Mount S' Elias...Alaska by Filippo de Filippi, Vittorio Sella (1900)
"... divided by wide furrows, which form a direct and easy path between snow-walls
rising to about SMALL LAKE, AMONG THE NEWTON seracs. thirty-five feet. ..."
4. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: Being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club by Alpine Club (London, England), Edward Shirley Kennedy (1862)
"This produces " seracs " and the " second petit lait" a watery liquid usually given
... seracs " are not to be despised when quite fresh, though inferior in ..."
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