单词 | ice flow |
释义 | > as lemmasice flow ice flow n. a flow or stream of ice; cf. ice floe n. ΚΠ 1842 J. D. Forbes in Edinburgh Rev. Apr. 58 Whenever the confluence of two glacier-branches occurs, there must be an union of the moraines which bordered the sides of the respective ice-flows. 1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age xxvii. 407 The glaciers of the second period..were themselves but pigmies as compared to the gigantic ice-flows of the first period. 1924 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1921–4 B. 36 179 The ‘Central Irish Ice’..was completely indebted to the ice-flows,..of which the glaciers issuing from the Donegal Highlands were doubtless the most powerful. 2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus iv. 149 They..had to rely on the rocks and pebbles that they could find locally, transported by rivers or by earlier ice flows. < as lemmas |
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