glacier
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"Melt extents and snowlines are proxies for glacier mass balance."
From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026
Over time, it can gradually transform into glacier ice.
From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026
This percentage applies at the scale of individual mountain ranges and does not necessarily affect every glacier equally within those regions.
From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026
Naturally, it helps that you can never tire of all the air-crisped glacier imagery, captured digitally and in 16mm.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
It showed a glacier with a curious serpentine shape, flowing down between three almost identical mountain peaks.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing glacier
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Geological Features
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