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alpine glacier [′al‚pīn ′glā·shər] (hydrology) A glacier lying on or occupying a depression in mountainous terrain. Also known as mountain glacier. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Recent surveys of Alpine glaciers suggest that the ice masses as a
whole are losing more than 1. When the body of a neolithic
traveller was recovered from an Alpine glacier, sprawled face down in
the posture of death, it was considered to be an extraordinary act of
historical retrieval. The main zone at Pterd
consists of a 150 m wide, approximately 1200 m long float train of
highly radioactive boulders that lie atop an alpine glacier in a north
facing cirque. |
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