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Definition of Alpine glacier
1. Noun. A glacier that moves down from a high valley.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alpine Glacier
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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