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The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier.
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An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
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A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.
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Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier; as, subglacial streams.
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Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
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An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
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One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
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A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.
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A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.
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A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
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A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
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