Local lake filled with icy cold meltwater from the surrounding mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday snaps] Reference

It shot out of the canyon at the top of a cliff, where meltwater from a glacier plunged down into a distant pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett] Reference

This operation will be centered on what Stamp calls a "mother ship," where the meltwater is to be filtered and bottled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iceberg Wars] Reference

The clear ice is meltwater that sealed up the crevasse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

The amount of mean annual glacier meltwater is about 56 km3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water profile of China] Reference

It's all meltwater ice, from that crevasse above the long-ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

He fell on his back into eight inches of ice and sludgy meltwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

A massive lake of glacial meltwater built up over northern America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age] Reference

Someone came running, splashing through snow saturated with meltwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sagittarius Whorl]

We'll be out of communication range once we hit that mass of meltwater ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

In spring, meltwater carries terrestrially derived DOC and abundant nutrients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic] Reference

The groundwater regime is affected by precipitation and meltwater infiltration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural hazards and infrastructure in the Arctic] Reference

"The frozen meltwater around it is a thousand years old, yes," Macleod replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

The Arctic tundra is a land of meltwater lakes, meandering rivers and wetlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6] Reference

In the winter, the meltwater refreezes as a layer on the bottom of the pack ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Ocean] Reference

For example, meltwater reaching the base of the ice causes the ice to flow faster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6] Reference

This basal meltwater can be supplemented by surface meltwater reaching the glacier base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glacier] Reference

He still wasn't sure that so much rock could have been broken loose by meltwater or ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colors of Chaos]

But what made it disintegrate so quickly is almost certainly this business of meltwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2002] Reference

The deposits from meltwater runoff supplies most of the sands and gravel for construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference

"That halo you see around it is frozen meltwater, surrounding the thing like a cocoon," Cheney said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

In North America and Eurasia, huge temporary lakes of meltwater formed behind natural dams of ice and earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: Lost Continent] Reference

'As soon as the meltwater has gone from the Euphrates, I am returning to Kharpurt and joining the Armenians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

"The crevasse must have opened up when the berg moved, shattering all the meltwater ice inside it," Costas said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

In that wintry world, glaciered mountain crests filled streams and rivers during the warmer season with meltwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Mostly glacial ice, the cloudy-looking stuff with tiny bubbles in it, but also bands of clearer blue meltwater ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

Its deep canyons contain many good quality, perennial streams that are fed by meltwater from the high Uinta Mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)] Reference

We've got one meltwater band with modern contaminants in it, atmospheric hydrocarbons from factory and engine emissions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

Dolomitic drift and meltwater deposits are characteristic and overlie limestone, calcareous shale, and dolomitic mudstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)] Reference

The luge runs fastest when it is gliding on meltwater, formed by friction between the leading edge of the blades and the ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Do You Build A Faster Luge?] Reference

After the first few steps he broke through the crust, not into a drift of snow, but knee-deep into a pool of standing meltwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

The shades of grey are mainly differences in density between glacial ice formed during the Quaternary and ice formed by meltwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

There should be drainage for meltwater Holes in the sides should allow drainage of meltwater away from the boxes stacked underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

Glacial Relict Lakes are remnants of giant lakes that were once filled with glacial meltwater but now exist as separate bodies of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Origin and age of lakes] Reference

Glacial meltwater is the "fuel" of the East Toba project and many of the 19 or so others that the company would like to pursue in the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Glave: Backstage at a Run-of-River Green-Energy Project] Reference