| 词汇 | glacier |
| 释义 | glacier noun[ C ] uk /ˈɡlæs.i.ər/ us /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ//ˈɡleɪ.si.ɚ/ a large mass of ice that moves slowly冰川，冰河 Abstract Aerial Art/DigitalVision/GettyImages Precipitation: snow & ice anti-icing avalanche be snowed inidiom be snowed upidiom boilerplate crevasse drifting hailstorm iceberg icy permafrost precipitation slushy snow day snow devil snow line snowdrift snowfall snowflake generation snowy A glacier is like a river of ice. Alaska has many mountains and glaciers. As the weather got warmer, the glacier started to melt. Glaciers hold about 69 percent of the Earth’s fresh water. Global warming is causing glaciers to melt. Most glaciers move about 0.3 meters a day but can move as fast as 31 meters in one day! Some glaciers are so small you can walk over them in one or two hours. The Matanuska glacier is one of the most beautiful. The biggest glacier in the world, the Lambert Glacier in Antarctica, is more than 40 kilometers wide and more than 400 kilometers long! Then the slow-moving glaciers are going to change into fast-moving rivers again. There are more than 100,000 glaciers in Alaska. This glacier in Alaska is a river of ice. Ushuaia has lakes, forests, glaciers, beautiful rainbows, and the Andes Mountains. We have to hope that the glaciers don’t melt. When a glacier meets the ocean, parts of it break off. glacier | American Dictionaryglacier noun[ C ] us/ˈɡleɪ·ʃər/ earth science a large mass of ice that moves slowly over land, esp. down the side of a mountain, often moving rocks with it and changing the shape of the land Examples of glacierglacier Nearly 50% of the shoreline is dominated by the calving ice fronts of the large outlet glaciers. Non-scientists regularly assisted in scientific projects, and provided one or more of the three men usually required for safety whenever scientists travelled over the glaciers. It is the biological equivalent of the retreating glaciers and ice shelves, and yet to unravel its complexities can take a lifetime's work. Thus, this same three-pulse pattern can be seen from tree rings, glacier advances, and last dates on buildings and monuments in the lowlands. Is the basal ice of a temperate glacier at the pressure melting point? Thus, the evaluation of possible error sources is still a challenging problem in glacier monitoring. This is a location rich in wild life because there is upwelling of nutrient rich water immediately at the glacier front. Many potential applications follow from the ability to map the surface of the glacier in such high detail. You will rarely see better quality photographs of glaciers in terms of sharpness, contrast and composition. Investigations of the form and flow of ice sheets and glaciers using radio-echo sounding. Field and his co-workers visited many glaciers and recorded (using photography) for the first time how they had receded. Application of image crosscorrelation to the measurement of glacier velocity using satellite image data. For a high number of data sets, both topography and glacier flow can be estimated with high accuracy. The book mainly covers the physical environment such as surface processes (glaciers, frost action, rivers) and ice- ocean interactions. These glaciers are described in a single chapter. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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