Piedmont type of glacier

Piedmont type of glacier
noun
a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice
Syn: ↑Piedmont glacier
Hypernyms: ↑glacier
Instance Hyponyms: ↑Mendenhall Glacier, ↑Great Mendenhall Glacier

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  • Albrecht Penck Glacier — (coord|76|40|S|162|20|E|type:glacier region:AQ|display=inline,title) is a glacier between the Fry Glacier and Evans Piedmont Glacier, draining northeast toward Tripp Bay on the coast of Victoria Land. First charted by the British Antarctic… …   Wikipedia

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