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单词 alpine glacier
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alpine glacier
alpine glacier n. a glacier in the Alps; (in extended use) a glacier in a mountain valley (contrasted with continental glacier n. at continental adj. and n. Compounds).
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1792 W. Hamilton Lett. Princ. French Democracy 53 In Nova Zembla, or in Lapland, it exists like the sickly pine of the Alpine glaciers, almost amid the ice itself.
1826 E. Henderson Biblical Res. & Trav. in Russia xxiii. 499 We entered Georgia..and kept on the east side of the river all the way to Kobi, where it first approaches the road after its descent from the Alpine glaciers to the right.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) viii. 61 The ‘firn’, or consolidated snow of the Alpine glaciers.
1964 W. C. Putnam Geol. xiii. 326/2 Although individual glaciers and ice fields are tremendously diverse, they can be placed in two broad categories: alpine glaciers and continental glaciers.
1995 S. Marty Leaning on Wind ii. 21 This rock had been carried six miles east from its original location, high on the Livingstone Range... It had been rafted down this river valley on an alpine glacier's tongue.
2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey xii. 222 The famous ‘Ice Man’, the body found preserved in an Alpine glacier in 1991.
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