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alpine glacier

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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.


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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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