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icefall::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | ice |
Examples of icefall
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After the icefall, Whittaker and the others immediately started searching the debris.
From the thenewstribune.com
The Mount Everest icefall is a formidable fortress with ice seracs as tall as skyscrapers.
From the ocregister.com
The next day he forced himself to head back down through the icefall.
From the time.com
She found out about the icefall the next morning from her mom.
From the thenewstribune.com
At the other end of the planet, documentarians recently captured the largest icefall ever recorded on film.
From the forbes.com
In the icefall there is no system, no repetition, no rhyme or reason to the lay of the frozen land.
From the time.com
Morris was shocked as he travelled up through the icefall at how radically it had changed in the weeks of the expedition.
From the guardian.co.uk
Seracs, crevasses and shifting blocks of ice make the icefall one of the most dangerous sections of the route.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Every now and then I could hear a big chunk of icefall breaking off a serac to our right and crashing down the mountain in the dark.
From the online.wsj.com
- A steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall
- An icefall is a portion of some glaciers characterized by rapid flow and a chaotic crevassed surface. Perhaps the most conspicuous consequence of glacier flow, icefalls occur where the glacier bed steepens and/or narrows. ...
- (Icefalls) are somewhat analogous to waterfalls in rivers. The flow of the ice down a steep gradient often results in crevasses and seracs.
- A cascade of ice that results when a glacier descends over a changing slope of ground beneath.
- Where ice flows over a bed with a very steep gradient, typically at a higher rate than both above and below, icefalls form. As a result, the glacier surface is fractured and heavily crevassed. In a river system, a waterfall is the equivalent form. Source: Bruce Molnia
- Is an area of rapid movement on a steep slope with extensive open crevassing. top of page
- A jumbled mass of ice in a glacier. Also, a mass of ice overhanging a precipice. Also, ice falling from a glacier, iceberg, or the like.
- The fractured, tumultuous, unstable part of a glacier, where it flows over a relatively steep drop. Analogous to a river rapid.
