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| a sharp rugged mountain ridge, produced by glaciation. |
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(of a glacier, an iceberg, etc.) to break up or splinter so as to produce a detached piece. |
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| a bowl-shaped, steep-walled mountain basin carved by glaciation, often containing a small, round lake. |
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continental glacier [image] |
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| | | a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice |
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| A deep fissure, as in a glacier; a chasm. |
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| An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift. |
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| Geology. noting or pertaining to a boulder or the like carried by glacial ice and deposited some distance from its place of origin. |
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| A long, narrow ridge of coarse gravel deposited by a stream flowing in or under a decaying glacial ice sheet. Also called os3. |
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| n. use of firn last year's, old; c. OE fyrn former, ancient, Goth fairneis; akin to ON forn ancient. |
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| The erosive action of the glacier and of the debris carried by it results in the formation not only of the trough itself but also of a number of associated features, such as hanging valleys (smaller glacial valleys that enter the trough at a higher level than the trough floor). |
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an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers. |
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| a pyramidal mountain peak, esp. one having concave faces carved by glaciation. |
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An extensive dome-shaped or platelike perennial cover of ice and snow that spreads out from a center and covers a large area, especially of land. |
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| the forward section or seaward edge of an ice shelf. |
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| a glacier covering a large fraction of a continent. |
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| A short ridge or mound of sand and gravel deposited during the melting of glacial ice. |
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| Geology A depression left in a mass of glacial drift, formed by the melting of an isolated block of glacial ice. |
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| a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay. |
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| a hill or mountain that has been completely encircled by a glacier. |
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| the material, chiefly sand or gravel, deposited by meltwater streams in front of a glacier. |
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| Information about aretes and pyramidal peaks. Material that was already deposited by older streams and ice activity may be reworked and sorted by the streams forming the outwash plain, and carried beyond the original maximum extent of the ice sheet / glacier. |
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| An elongate mound of bedrock worn smooth and rounded by glacial abrasion. |
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| finely ground rock material produced by the grinding action of a glacier on its bed. |
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| the line, as on mountains, above which there is perpetual snow |
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| One of a number of parallel lines or scratches on the surface of a rock that were inscribed by rock fragments embedded in the base of a glacier as it moved across the rock. |
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| up to the time of; until: to fight till death. |
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| Bucher Glacier, a typical valley - or mountain or alpine - glacier. Pictured is Bucher Glacier, an outlet glacier of the Juneau Icefield in southeastern Alaska. The dark stripes on the ice are medial moraines, and the wavelike forms along the center are called ogives |
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| a ring-shaped coral reef or a string of closely spaced small coral islands, enclosing or nearly enclosing a shallow lagoon. |
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| Nautical. water thrown backward by the motion of oars, propellers, paddle wheels, etc. |
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| a broadened barrier beach, habitable in places, that provides a measure of protection for the mainland, as during hurricanes and tidal waves. |
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| a reef of coral running roughly parallel to the shore and separated from it by a wide, deep lagoon. |
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| | an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore. |
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- A sudden rupture or bursting, as of an automobile tire.
- The hole made by such a rupture.
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- A rocklike deposit consisting of the calcareous skeletons secreted by various anthozoans. Coral deposits often accumulate to form reefs or islands in warm seas.
- Any of numerous chiefly colonial marine polyps of the class Anthozoa that secrete such calcareous skeletons.
- The red-orange, pinkish, or white deposits secreted by corals of the genus Corallium, used to make jewelry and ornaments.
- An object made of this material.
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| the act of deflating or the state of being deflated. |
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| A desert pavement is a desert surface that is covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments of pebble and cobble size. |
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| a sand hill or sand ridge formed by the wind, usually in desert regions or near lakes and oceans. |
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| a storm of strong winds and dust-filled air over an extensive area during a period of drought over normally arable land (distinguished from sandstorm ). |
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| a. | an area where ocean waves are being generated by the wind. |
| b. | the length of such an area. |
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| a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion. |
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| a coral reef close to and along the land. |
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| an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes. |
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| a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia. |
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| Explains littoral transport, longshore current, and beach drift. Two graphics (one animated). Longshore Current and Beach Drift A shoreline is not static. As waves appoach shore and "feel the bottom", water piles up and breakers form (see "Waves"). |
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| any specified division or portion of time: poetry of the period from 1603 to 1660. |
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| Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different. |
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sandbarwave height [image] |
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| This will include details on how waves form, how swells develop, swell direction, wave height, wave speed, wave duration (period) , the influence of bottom contours, tides and what information is available to us all to help with our own wave forecasting. |
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| to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers. |
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| A very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption. |
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| a pebble or cobble that has been faceted, grooved, and polished by the erosive action of wind-driven sand. |
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| Physics. the distance, measured in the direction of propagation of a wave, between two successive points in the wave that are characterized by the same phase of oscillation. |
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