Synonym: iceberg. Similar words: facies, glance, fiery, fierce, carrier, barrier, supplier, frontier. Meaning: ['gleɪʃər /'glæsɪə] n. a slowly moving mass of ice.
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(31) And up this way, in easy hiking distance, the great Knik Glacier.
(32) Campgrounds in Glacier National Park open in late May and early June.
(33) The glacier lay about 2 miles away around a bend in the bay.
(34) The park was formed to preserve for ever the spectacular countryside, lakes and river systems created in the wake of the glacier.
(35) Just a short distance away, looming above a glacier, was the dazzling, ice-hung bulk of Chonku Chuli.
(36) They were definitely photographs of some very old and very large vessel half submerged in a glacier.
(37) We watched them climb upwards and across the Charpoua Glacier, following a tongue of snow into the rocks of the Drus.
(38) A granite sheet 200 feet high and up to 50 feet thick suddenly slid off Glacier Point.
(39) From a bowl-shaped cirque, the glacier flows downhill.
(40) The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.
(41) The glacier dislocated the great stones.
(42) The erosive processes by which a glacier is reduced.
(43) Dog Sled Camp atop Juneau Glacier in Alaska.
(44) The glacier scooped a canyon out of rocks.
(45) By the time the Marsh joins the immense Nimrod Glacier, some 35 miles from our camp, the ice is on a rapid charge to the Ross Sea Ice Shelf.
(46) This glacial lake is bound by the glacier snout on one end, and a moraine—a mound formed by the accumulation of sediments and rocks moved by the glacier—on the other.
(47) Here, a large, glistening iceberg calved from the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland drifts through Disko Bay on its way to the Atlantic Ocean.
(48) An exultant climber raises his ice ax near the mouth of an ice cave on Alaska's Matanuska Glacier.
(49) Many of them have never been in Yellowstone Park or Glacier Park.
(50) The meltwater from the glacier on top of the volcano ran down into the crater,[http://sentencedict.com/glacier.html] chilling the magma and then the pressure from underneath caused an explosion.
(51) Along the beach where the Cook Glacier once calved great pinnacles of ice into the sea, the rookery now calves flotillas of king penguins.
(52) It showed the ice-encrusted north face of Everest and, below it, the great river of ice known as the Main Rongbuk Glacier, flowing in a sweeping, S-shaped curve down a broad, stony valley.
(53) This berg has some ice-debris on it that has probably fallen from other ice calvings, as it drifted by the Humboldt glacier that it has calved from.
(54) What makes Grimsvotn different is that it lies under a huge glacier of the ice up to 12 meters thick.
(55) Beginning 25,000 years ago, the Bow Valley glacier ground through the region before being overtaken by a continental glacier.
(56) That would mean 23% of China's population deprived of the dry season glacier melt, making water scarcity far more severe than it is even today.
(57) Mary Cook works on the ground crew for an air taxi company in Gustavus, Alaska, a community of 450 surrounded by Glacier Bay National Park.
(58) A person stands underneath a natural arch in a glacier at Norsel Point, Anvers Island, Antarctica on July 30, 2006.
(59) Lituya Bay is a T-shaped fjord on the coast of the Alaskan Panhandle, west of Glacier Bay and about 120 miles west-northwest of Juneau.
(60) Reached the Throp glacier 5800 meter side glacierets to retrocede same time about 8 meters.