ice front
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ice front
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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In 2009, Pettit tried to monitor the ice front from a safe distance in Icy Bay, Alaska, using hydrophones to record sounds underwater.
From National Geographic • Sep. 7, 2023
Near the surface, temperature differences between the ocean and the ice front or between land and the ocean can do the same.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2022
The rift tip appears also to have turned significantly towards the ice front, indicating that the time of calving is probably very close.
From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2017
At. last the enormous, pale green ice front of cliff, a half or a full mile in height, crunches and grinds its way .
From Time Magazine Archive
Valleys leading outward from the ice front were flooded by glacial waters and were filled often to great depths with trains of stream-swept drift.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
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