piedmont glacier


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

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.
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