regelation
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Indeed, it was new welded by regelation since the sun’s rays had disappeared.
From The Silent Barrier by Louis Tracy
But a little further down the wound is healed again, and regelation has restored the smooth surface of the glacier.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
Although the effect of pressure is so small, it produces, as is well known, remarkable results in the motion of glaciers, the moulding and regelation of ice, and many other phenomena.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
But this theory of regelation, although unquestionably true, and although it exercises some influence on glacier motion, does not, in my opinion, alone account for it.
From Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
It was moist and soft, in fact in a condition altogether favourable for the "regelation" of its granules.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
