regelation
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There is nothing new in it, except a few additional pages about "regelation," and also "gravity."
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary
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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
In fact, regelation will confer upon it all the appearance of viscosity.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John
It is this same principle of regelation which enables men to cross snow bridges in safety.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
