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Definition of Glaciers
1. glacier [n] - See also: glacier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glaciers
Literary usage of Glaciers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The medial moraines, of which each glacier usually has one fewer than the number
of its tributary glaciers, are formed by the union of two laterals at the ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1906)
"THE VARIATIONS OF glaciers. XI' HARRY FIELDING REID Johns Hopkins University The
following is a summary of the Tenth Annual Report of the International ..."
3. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"glaciers. If the body of ice developed from snow becomes great enough, ...
Not all snow-fields give origin to glaciers, but nearly all glaciers have their ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1897)
"glaciers of North America. By Israel C. Russell. (linn and Company, Boston, 1897.
The subject of American scenery is again brought before us ..."
5. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"The agency of ice will be considered under the heads of glaciers and Icebergs;
the effects of frost in disintegrating rocks having been already treated of ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"The literature of the variations of glaciers has been greatly enriched by the
contributions of M. Rabot. He has brought together in a convenient form the ..."
7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"Two big glaciers, one of them reaching the 11000-feet level ... A group of large
glaciers, Muraka. 9. Several glaciers are also mentioned on the upper ..."
8. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1870)
"I maintain that the reverse is the case—that instead of glaciers excavating fiords
... The deep fiords have, fur the most part, glaciers launching icebergs; ..."
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