Piedmont glacier

Thesaurus

Noun

Piedmont glacier - a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of icePiedmont type of glacierglacier - a slowly moving mass of ice

piedmont glacier

[′pēd‚mänt ¦glā·shər] (hydrology) A thick, continuous ice sheet formed at the base of a mountain range by the spreading out and coalescing of valley glaciers from higher mountain elevations.

Piedmont glacier

Related to Piedmont glacier: Cirque glacier, Valley glacier, tidewater glacier

noun

Synonyms for Piedmont glacier

noun a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska

Synonyms

Piedmont type of glacier

Related Words

glacier

随便看

英语词典包含2567994条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。