Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The surface over which a glacier moves.

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  • However, glaciologists ARE recovering glacier-bed remnants, including plants that are protected in cracks that the glacier flows over, and that got covered up.

    NAS Panel Report « Climate Audit 2006

  • glacier-bed remnants, including plants that are protected in cracks that the glacier flows over, and that got covered up.

    NAS Panel Report « Climate Audit 2006

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