Water bodies

Water bodies

Referring to any significant accumulation of water usually on planet earth but also on other planetary bodies.

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mass budget

Water bodies; Glaciers

A measure of the change in mass of a glacier at a certain point for a specific period of time. The balance between accumulation and ablation.

glacial lake

Water bodies; Glaciers

An accumulation of standing liquid water on (supraglacial), in (englacial), or under (subglacial) a glacier.

drift

Water bodies; Glaciers

A collective term used to describe all types of glacier sedimentary deposits, regardless of the size or amount of sorting. The term includes all sediment that is transported by a ...

end moraine

Water bodies; Glaciers

A cross-valley, ridge-like accumulation of glacial sediment that forms at the farthest point reached by the terminus of an advancing glacier.

remnant

Water bodies; Glaciers

An isolated melting mass of glacier ice, that has become detached from its source and the remainder of the glacier. Some remnants cover many square miles.

ice-cored moraine

Water bodies; Glaciers

A moraine ridge consisting of a drape of sediment overlying a mass of stagnant ice.

outwash plain

Water bodies; Glaciers

A broad, low-slope angle alluvial plain composed of glacially eroded, sorted sediment (termed outwash), that has been transported by meltwater. The alluvial plain begins at the ...