Lexic.us

Definition of Ice mass

1. Noun. A large mass of ice.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Mass

Literary usage of Ice mass

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

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"... as well as for the icecaps and mountain glaciers, which originating in the outlying plateaus and mountains, form a fringe about the central ice mass. ..."

2. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1902)
"Here under certain conditions of temperature, and acting pressures in the ice mass itself, the ice might either fracture, or move as a plastic substance. ..."

3. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1887)
"... that the ice mass flowed in a northerly direction, whilst in the southwesterly portion of the same province the ice mass moved in a westerly course. ..."

4. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1897)
"... glacier was forced over the low divide between the Tuolumne drainage -by the pressure of the enormous ice-mass moving southward from near Mt. Conness. ..."

5. Bulletin of the University of Montana by University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.) (1903)
"How many advances and retreats of the ice mass covered the valley must be ... At the same time a much larger ice mass was crossing the wide lake valley from ..."

6. Ice Or Water: Another Appeal to Induction from the Scholastic Methods of by Henry Hoyle Howorth (1905)
"They have invoked the possibility of ice currents in the ice mass itself ... The inferior parts of the great ice-mass which occupied the valleys and the ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"These mark the places of the termination of small ice tongues, which crept forward a few miles into the valleys from the front of the main ice mass. ..."

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