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Definition of Icefalls
1. icefall [n] - See also: icefall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Icefalls
Literary usage of Icefalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F by Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913)
"The icefalls we see from our present camp apparently connect with the ridge. ...
Occasionally in the lulls we can see the blue icefalls looming up through ..."
2. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"Such icefalls make travel on a glacier extremely difficult and dangerous. ...
Longitudinal sections of a glacier showing icefalls formed where the slope of ..."
3. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1893)
"... icefalls similar to the waterfalls in riven. A'.th«« icefalls the ice is
entirely broken up ..."
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