regelation

I have already made the usual regelation experiment before you when I compressed broken ice in this mould.

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 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

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

When the attachments of pressed ice are broken, the continuity of the mass is restored by the regelation of the new contiguous surfaces.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall