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What is the best synonym for Glacier?
synonyms for glacier
- ice floe.
- iceberg.
- berg.
- floe.
- icecap.
- glacial mass.
- ice field.
- snow slide.
What is a antonym of Glacier?
Noun. (mass noun, context-dependent) Opposite of water in frozen form. fire. blaze.
What is the meaning of striation?
1a : the fact or state of being striated. b : arrangement of striations or striae. 2 : a minute groove, scratch, or channel especially when one of a parallel series. 3 : any of the alternate dark and light cross bands of a myofibril of striated muscle.
What is another name for valley glaciers?
Valley Glacier. A glacier that flows for all or most of its length within the walls of a mountain valley. Also called an Alpine Glacier or a Mountain Glacier.
Do glaciers have names?
These include:
- Fox Glacier.
- Franz Josef Glacier.
- Hooker Glacier.
- Mueller Glacier.
- Murchison Glacier.
- Tasman Glacier.
- Volta Glacier.
What is another name for glacial melt?
Meltwater is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans. Meltwater is often found in the ablation zone of glaciers, where the rate of snow cover is reducing.
What is a striation in anatomy?
Medical Definition of striated muscle : muscle tissue that is marked by transverse dark and light bands, that is made up of elongated fibers, and that includes skeletal and usually cardiac muscle of vertebrates and most muscle of arthropods — compare smooth muscle, voluntary muscle.
What causes striation?
The striations are caused by the regular arrangement of contractile proteins (actin and myosin). Actin is a globular contractile protein that interacts with myosin for muscle contraction. Skeletal muscle also has multiple nuclei present in a single cell.
What are the different types of glaciers?
Types of Glaciers
- Ice Sheets. Ice sheets are continental-scale bodies of ice.
- Ice Fields and Ice Caps. Ice fields and ice caps are smaller than ice sheets (less than 50,000 sq.
- Cirque and Alpine Glaciers.
- Valley and Piedmont Glaciers.
- Tidewater and Freshwater Glaciers.
- Rock Glaciers.
How does a glacier move?
Glaciers move by a combination of (1) deformation of the ice itself and (2) motion at the glacier base. At the bottom of the glacier, ice can slide over bedrock or shear subglacial sediments. This means a glacier can flow up hills beneath the ice as long as the ice surface is still sloping downward.