Tag: Swisseduc

Tag Description: Alean J., Hambrey M., 2015, Photoglossary, Glaciers online [online], Available at: http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/glossary/ [Accessed 07/12/2016].
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Ablation
Ablation area/zone
Ablation cone
Accumulation
Accumulation area
Albedo
Areal scouring
Arete
Basal debris
Basal ice layer
Basal sliding
Bergschrund
Bergy bit
Boulder clay
Braided stream
Breached watershed
Calving
Chattermarks
Cirque
Cirque glacier
Col
Cold glacier
Cold ice
Conduit
Corrie
Crag-and-tail
Crescentic gouge
Crevasse
Crevasse trace
Cryoconite hole
Cwm
Dead ice
Dirt cone
Drift
Drumlin
End moraine
En-echelon crevasses
Englacial conduit
Englacial debris
Englacial stream
Equilibrium line
Erratic
Esker
Fault
Firn
Fjord
Flow unit
Fluted lateral moraine
Fluted moraine
Fluted snow
Fold
Foliation
Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF)
Glacial trough
Glaciated
Glacier advance
Glacier bed
Glacier flea
Glacier ice
Glacierized
Glacier karst
Glacier milk
Glacier recession
Glacier retreat
Glacier sole
Glacier table
Glacier terminus
Glacier tongue
Groove
Hanging glacier
Hanging valley
Highland icefield
Horn
Hot-water drilling
Ice age
Ice apron
Ice avalanche
Iceberg
Ice cap
Ice cliff
Ice-dammed lake
Icefall
Ice sheet
Ice shelf
Ice ship
Ice stream
Ice tongue
Ice wall
Internal deformation
Jokulhlaup
Kame terrace
Kettle
Lateral moraine
Little ice age
Longitudinal crevasse
Looped moraine
Mass balance
Medial moraines
Moraine-dammed lake
Moulin
Nunatak
Nye channel
Ogive
Outlet glacier
Outwash plain
Pack ice
P-forms
Piedmont glacier
Polythermal glacier
Pothole
Proglacial lake
Push moraine
Quiescent phase
Recessional moraine
Regelation ice
Regenerated (or rejuvenated) glacier
Riegel
Roche moutonnee
Rock basin
Rock glacier
Run-out distance
Sandur
Sea ice
Sea loch
Sedimentary stratification
Shear zone
Slush flow
Snout
Snowball Earth
Snow bridge
Snow swamp
S rac
Stapi
Steam drilling
Strain
striations
Subglacial debris
Subglacial meltwater channel
Subglacial stream
Superimposed ice
Supraglacial debris
Supraglacial stream
Surge
Surge front
Tabular iceberg
Tarn
Temperate glacier
Temperate ice
Tephra
Terminal moraine (or end moraine)
Thrust
Tidewater glacier
Till
Tillite
Transverse crevasse
Trim-line
Unconformity
Valley glacier
Whaleback
Wind scoop