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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small sheet of ice or névé, lying under the snow-fields at the summits of the highest points in the Cordilleras, and exposed to view when after a series of exceptionally dry years the snow has nearly or quite melted away: a name given by J. Le Conte. The glacierets are considered by some to be properly denominated glaciers, and by others to be something quite different from true glaciers.
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“Into the glacieret which flowed down in the lee of this hill we drove two caves, which gave both an even low temperature and excellent insulation.”
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Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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