- longitudinal crevasse
- noun
: a crevasse roughly parallel to the direction of ice movement that forms where a glacier spreads laterally
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
longitudinal crevasse
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glacier — glaciered, adj. /glay sheuhr/, n. an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of… … Universalium
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