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Continental glacier   /kˌɑntənˈɛntəl glˈeɪʃər/   Listen
Continental glacier

noun
1.
A glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice.





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"Continental glacier" Quotes from Famous Books



... convex curves, where there are no natural barriers in the topography of the country to set it such a limit. Under these conditions such a lobate margin cannot belong to deposits of rivers, lakes, or ocean, but is precisely that which would mark the edge of a continental glacier which deployed in ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton


Words linked to "Continental glacier" :   polar glacier, glacier


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