Meaning of gletcher ice | Babel Free

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A type of floating ice formed from precipitation.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“The main part of ice thickness consists of "gletcher ice", formed from atmospheric precipitations with included in it suspended articles of different origin and microbial cells.”

“Gletcher and sea ice should be distinguished among the ice covering the sea surface in high latitudes. The former is generated exclusively from precipitation, being compacted and transformed first into firn and then gletcher ice, after it has broken off glaciers into the sea.”

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