regelation

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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 Tyndall, John

The conclusion was afterwards experimentally verified by Sir William Thomson, and served to explain all the phenomena of regelation.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

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 Joly, John

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

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