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Definition of Polar glacier
1. Noun. A glacier near the Arctic or Antarctic poles.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Polar Glacier
Literary usage of Polar glacier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"... —0.3 °C. In polar glacier conditions, the bottom of the ice is frozen to the
underlying ground and the temperature at the ice-ground interface is colder ..."
2. Frost and Fire: Natural Engines, Tool-marks and Chips, with Sketches Taken by John Francis Campbell (1865)
"47° W. If a polar glacier carried these stones they ought to be found in great
moraine heaps at the end, but nothing like a terminal moraine exists in the ..."
3. Fuel of the Sun by Mattieu Williams (1890)
"This perpetual outthrust of the great polar glacier,—this continual erosion of
the polar regions of the planet, ever at work since the date of its primeval ..."
4. Report on the Geology and Resources of the Region in the Vicinity of the by George Mercer Dawson (1875)
"dredging operations, also, in the vicinity of the south polar glacier«, ...
the glacial phenomena of the North-west, on the supposition of a polar glacier. ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1854)
"Indeed, though modified by climate, and especially by the alternation of day and
night, the polar glacier must be regarded as strictly atmospheric in its ..."
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