glacial mass
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Global warming has melted Earth’s glacial mass, submerging nearly the entire planet in water.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019
In Switzerland, for example, a recent study showed that loss of glacial mass because of the warming climate has increased hydropower production by 3 percent to 4 percent since 1980.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2019
The coasts are rugged, often sheer, and on the tail of the continent, the southern Andes shoulder a massive ice field, the biggest glacial mass in the hemisphere outside Antarctica.
From BusinessWeek • Apr. 17, 2014
The polar vortex has brought record low temperatures not experienced in a generation, freezing pots of boiling water instantaneously and solidifying the Lake Michigan shoreline into a glacial mass.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2014
Now and then he may find the glacial mass in large measure made up of stones, the admixture extending many feet above the bottom of the cavern, perhaps to the very top of the arch.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
