regelation

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Indeed, it was new welded by regelation since the sun’s rays had disappeared.

From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis

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 Tyndall, John

The one refers it mainly to regelation; the other to a real viscosity of the ice.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John

Then again, what I have described as 'intrusive layers of blue ice' was a remarkable feature; one could imagine that these layers represent surfaces which have been transformed by regelation under hot sun and wind.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

It is formed in water, and not from the cementing and regelation of the powdery crystalline snow, as is glacier ice.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir