Gletscher

Related words

• Gletschereis

  Glacier ice is a form of ice that forms through the compression and freezing of snow over long periods in glaciers.

• Gletscherspalte

  Crevasse

• Salzgletscher

  Salt glacier

• Todestal

  Dead ice valley

• Abschmelzung

  Melting

• Glazial

  Glacial

• fluvioglazial

  Fluvioglacial

• gefahrvoll

  Perilous, dangerous

• kälteliebend

  Psychrophilic

• Sander

  Outwash plain

• Kar

  Cirque

• Toteis

  Dead ice

• Eisbohrkern

  An ice core is a cylindrical sample of ice removed from a glacier or ice sheet to obtain information about past climate conditions.

• Förde

  Firth

• Aufschmelzung

  Melting

• Glaziologie

  glaciology

• Firne

  firn

• Firne

  firn

• Karsee

  Tarn (corrie loch)

• Eiszeitalter

  An ice age is a long period in Earth's history when large parts of the Earth's surface are covered in ice.

• Eiskappe

  ice cap

• firn

  Firn

• allochthon

  Allochthonous

• kryophil

  Cryophilic

• glazifluvial

  Glaciofluvial

• Schmelze

  Melt

• geomorphologisch

  Geomorphological means relating to geomorphology, which is the study of the Earth's surface and the processes that shape it.

• glazial

  Glacial means relating to ice ages or formed by glaciers.

• subglazial

  Subglacial

• Eisberg

  iceberg

• Moräne

  A moraine is a ridge or mound of glacial debris deposited by a glacier.

• Geschiebe

  Drift

• Findling

  Erratic

Example sentences with “Gletscher”

1. Der Gletscher schmilzt immer schneller. (The glacier is melting faster and faster.)

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