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Piedmont glacier ThesaurusNoun | 1. | Piedmont glacier - a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of icePiedmont type of glacierglacier - a slowly moving mass of ice |
piedmont glacier
piedmont glacier[′pēd‚mänt ¦glā·shər] (hydrology) A thick, continuous ice sheet formed at the base of a mountain range by the spreading out and coalescing of valley glaciers from higher mountain elevations. Piedmont glacier Related to Piedmont glacier: Cirque glacier, Valley glacier, tidewater glacierSynonyms for Piedmont glaciernoun a type of glaciation characteristic of AlaskaSynonymsRelated Words |