You can tell that a glacier carved that valley because it is U-shaped. From LearnThat.org.
Hence the name glacier, which is derived from the Latin, glacies; French, glace, glacier. From Wordnik.com. [Ice and Glaciers] Reference
A big risk of doing that is what they call glacier dust, which can make you quite sick, almost to same effects as like food poisoning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2006] Reference
Climbers found body in glacier, near where training craft crashed. From Wordnik.com. [Remains Returned List WWII] Reference
Up here as well, photos from glaciers 100yrs ago compared to now are overwhelming in how little of the glacier is left. From Wordnik.com. [happy solstice] Reference
He's worked for three years on his big new machine, which is over nine feet tall, that he calls a glacier sliding simulator. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
The road to the glacier was a wild and varied landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Skaftafell] Reference
"Vell, a glacier is a big mountain all covered up vith ice.". From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
“The edge of a glacier is a case study in giving birth.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Grave Denied]
A glacier is a stupendous, ever-progressing, resistless plow. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06] Reference
To be called a glacier, a mass of ice must be capable of motion. From Wordnik.com. [Glacier] Reference
The glacier is the sixth-biggest in Iceland, just to the west of the bigger glacier. From Wordnik.com. [WIBW - HomePage - Headlines] Reference
The loss of the glacier has been a topic of scholarly concern for over a hundred years. From Wordnik.com. [State of fear]
The most extensive of these glaciers is the Aletsch glacier, which is fifteen miles in length. From Wordnik.com. [Rivers of Ice] Reference
The hotel, as it turns out, is the Hotel Belvedere in Switzerland, and the glacier is the Rhone. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
I should have enjoyed exploring this glacier, which is said to be one of the greatest on the coast. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse] Reference
The work on the glacier was the beginning of the ceaseless grind which the ascent of Denali demands. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America] Reference
They're also as flamboyant as a glacier, which is to say there's nothing show-offy about any of them. From Wordnik.com. [NBCSports.com: Sports] Reference
The glacier is a warm glacier, and this means that there is a lot of surface water (of unknown depth). From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
This is different from a real advance of a glacier, which is caused by an increase in the volume of ice. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
But as things are changing it seems that a fissure opening under the glacier is the next thing to happen. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
At last the crevasses were all passed and we reached the lower portion of the glacier, which is free of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America] Reference
In some ways, watching the glacier is a very sedentary experience but, nonetheless, it manages to be thrilling. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
It seems to me that the length of a glacier is a function of precipitation at the headwalls and not temperature. From Wordnik.com. [NAS News and Schedule « Climate Audit] Reference
Just before the glacier was a little tricky walking along a rocky ridge where the rocks would slide quite readily. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
In this instance it is not the mountain, but the glacier, that is in labor, and the mountain itself is being brought forth. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
Guy Hayes said weather could prevent the chopper from landing on the glacier, which is about 40 miles northeast of Anchorage. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com] Reference
Indeed, the idea of glacier erosion appears so daring to some minds that its boldness alone is deemed its sufficient refutation. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
We crossed over a small glacier, which is the source of Donau -- the Great Mother River -- and said we would follow her to the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
On one side of the glacier was a little sort of cell, or arched nook, up which an old man had cut steps, and he helped me up into it. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2] Reference
Slide 5: • Stores - the glacier is a store of water • Transfers - As more snow falls the underlying layers are compressed into ice. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
There's an ice-field up here called a glacier, but it's an awful fraud if you want skating -- rough as one of Bullford's fields at Rugby. From Wordnik.com. [Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life] Reference
Inspiration to this name came quite natural, since the dying server was called glacier - so I wanted something connected to cold and snow. From Wordnik.com. [Naming conventions for servers] Reference
Maybe a glacier is moving over the field. From Wordnik.com. [leo dangel | four kinds of lilacs « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
And you believe the glacier is a wrecked comet, don't you? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Clique] Reference
Wikipedia is also the first result when searching "glacier" on Google. From Wordnik.com. [Ref Seek - Academic Search Engine Filters Advertising] Reference
In the case of searching with the term "glacier," Wikipedia was the first result. From Wordnik.com. [Ref Seek - Academic Search Engine Filters Advertising] Reference
I did a couple of quick searches using the terms "glacier" and "healthy body fat.". From Wordnik.com. [Ref Seek - Academic Search Engine Filters Advertising] Reference
Any marble mantel-piece may serve as an example of this kind of glacier-worn surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
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