ice apron
ice apron
[′īs ‚ā·prən] (civil engineering)
A wedge-shaped structure which protects a bridge pier from floating ice.
(hydrology)
The snow and ice attached to the walls of a cirque.
The ice that is flowing from an ice sheet over the edge of a plateau.
A piedmont glacier's lobe.
Ice that adheres to a wall of a valley below a hanging glacier.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
HANGING GLACIERS: Also called
ice aprons, these glaciers cling to steep mountainsides.
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