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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ice field

Water bodies; Glaciers

A continuous accumulation of snow and glacier ice that completely fills a mountain basin or covers a low-relief mountain plateau to a substantial depth. When the thickness become ...

piedmont glacier

Water bodies; Glaciers

A fan or lobe-shaped glacier, located at the front of a mountain range. It forms when one or more valley glaciers flow from a confined valley onto a plain where it expands. The ...

polar glacier

Water bodies; Glaciers

A glacier with a thermal or temperature regime in which ice temperatures always remain below the freezing point.

rock glacier

Water bodies; Glaciers

A glacier-like landform that often heads in a cirque and consists of a valley-filling accumulation of angular rock blocks. Rock glaciers have little or no visible ice at the ...

temperate glacier

Water bodies; Glaciers

A glacier with a or temperature-regime in which liquid water coexists with frozen water (glacier ice) during part or even all of the year.

tidewater glacier

Water bodies; Glaciers

A glacier with a terminus that ends in a body of water influenced by tides, such as the ocean or a large lake. Typically, tidewater glaciers calve ice to produce icebergs.