Sentence examples for glacier rock from inspiring English sources

It comprises the Tapado glacial complex, which is an assemblage of the Tapado glacier and the glacial foreland (debris-covered glacier, rock glacier, and moraines).

We walked along the gray strand where the blocks of glacier rocked gently in the tide, and we gathered in our hands the cocktail-size ice cubes that had washed up on shore and flung them back to the sea.

In addition, new glaciers (rock or ice) have formed around Crater Glacier as well.

Especially, headwalls above glacier-derived rock glaciers are exposed to high weathering rates, and thereby presumably delimit critical ranges regarding altitude for headwall retreat rates.

The glacier to rock glacier transformation problem is revisited from a previously unseen angle.

The conditions for a theoretically valid glacier to rock glacier transformation are discussed and tested.

This review examines the state of understanding of the responses of mid-latitude alpine landscapes to recent cryospheric change, and summarizes the variety and complexity of documented landscape responses involving glaciers, moraines, rock and debris slopes, and rock glaciers.

Erratic, glacier-transported rock fragment that differs from the local bedrock.

The stingy soils on the glacier-scoured rock here provide footholds for pitch pines.

Glaciers ground rock into highly fertile waterborne silt and wind-borne loess that refertilized landscapes and rejuvenated the soil.

The spike is in a glacier-scratched rock, speaking of various times in the land, or what we might call timescapes.