Definition of GLACIER

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Recent Examples on the Web In the past 22 years, one giant glacier in East Antarctica has retreated almost three miles. — Helen Regan, CNN, "The South Pole has been warming at three times the global average over the past 30 years, study says," 29 June 2020 The crash was virtually forgotten until a military training mission spotted a yellow life raft on the glacier. — Washington Post, "More fragments from 1952 crash in Alaska found in glacier," 27 June 2020 The team worked for months developing this floating glacier that would become Ahtohallan, from individual ice structures to how Elsa's transformation sequence would play out. — Nick Romano, EW.com, "The heartbreaking story behind a Frozen 2 character and other moments from Into the Unknown," 27 June 2020 One Wilderness Society staffer contracted giardiasis after drinking water running off a glacier. — Keith Mccafferty, Field & Stream, "The Ultimate Survival Guide to Finding and Purifying Water," 19 June 2020 Watch as the team maps the impacts of climate change on Mt. Everest in a way the world has never seen before to better understand the world’s highest glacier. — National Geographic, "Creating a virtual reconstruction of Everest Base Camp," 16 June 2020 Accounting for the fact that this process probably slowed during winter, the authors estimate the glacier retreated at over 10 kilometers (6 miles) per year. — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, "Ice sheets can melt much faster than we thought," 8 June 2020 Dowdeswell says the finding could be relevant to the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, which has experienced rapid melting and seems to be forming similar underwater ridges as that ancient glacier. — Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, "Ice sheets can melt much faster than we thought," 8 June 2020 Maybe the most exciting results were that the moss balls were moving as a herd, in a direction not explainable by the glacier’s downhill flow. — Anchorage Daily News, "A tale of glacier mice and young love," 7 June 2020

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“Glacier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glacier. Accessed 6 Jul. 2020.

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