hanging glacier

noun

1. a glacier situated on a shelf above a valley or another glacier; it may be joined to the lower level by an icefall or separate from it

Example Sentences

In 2021, the area experienced a deadly flood after a section of rock and hanging glacier fell down a steep slope.

From Washington Post

Experts say the massive flooding was caused by the collapse of both a section of rock and a “hanging glacier” — a huge chunk of ice — along a steep slope.

From Seattle Times

By reviewing old satellite images, he learned that the hanging glacier responsible for Sunday’s landslide had developed a large crack in 2017.

From Scientific American

Possibly from the steep hanging glacier in the middle of the Google Earth image.

From Scientific American

He saw that an enormous hanging glacier, roughly 15 football fields long and five across, had broken from the steep face of a mountain and plummeted downward, bringing some of the rock face down with it.

From Scientific American