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ice front
noun
- the forward section or seaward edge of an ice shelf.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ice front1
First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences
The evidence for this is found in the presence of a continuous, terminal moraine, at or just in advance of the present ice-front.
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In the oscillations of the ice-front marking the final retreat of the Alpine glaciers there were three epochs of advance.
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In valley glaciers it is shaped by the ice front to a crescent whose convex side is downstream.
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Temporary lakes were formed wherever the ice front dammed the natural drainage of the region.
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The ancient channel which it held along the Illinoian ice front has been traced through southeastern Iowa for many miles.
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