| 单词 | pressure ridge |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspressure ridge pressure ridge n. a ridge caused by pressure; a ridge on the surface of sea or lake ice, caused by compression or lateral movement; (Meteorology) a ridge of high atmospheric pressure. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > ridge formed by lateral pressure pressure ridge1897 pressure line1909 1897 tr. F. Nansen Farthest North I. vi. 241 The pressure-ridges..are apt to run at right angles to the course of the pressure which produced them. 1913 I. Cowie Company of Adventurers xv. 264 I..was aroused every now and again by the cracking, rumbling and thunderous resounding of the ice as the cold took a firmer grip on it and upheaved it into pressure ridges. 1945 Geogr. Rev. 35 132 The anticyclone that had covered the eastern United States..joined the Bermuda high and thus built up a pressure ridge. 1972 R. G. Kazmann Mod. Hydrol. (ed. 2) v. 217 The most promising experiment was that which utilized artificial recharge by means of wells to create a groundwater ridge, or pressure ridge, of freshwater between the area of pumpage and the sea. 1994 Equinox Jan. 16/3 Ice shrinks in the cold... It will burst up in a pressure ridge as the weather warms, because when it expands, the sheet of ice is too big for the lake. < as lemmas |
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