Glossary of Glacier and Ice Terms Part 2

Brunette – a bed of material transported by a glacier. Stones and silt pushed by the glacier face are called terminal moraine, The side moraines are lateral moraines, and in the middle and at the bottom of the glacier – this.

Muton – French word meaning "brank head”, boulder rubbed by the glacier. It often resembles a sheep grazing on a hillside.

Erratic – stone or boulder, which has apparently been moved from elsewhere, probably over the glacier.

Nunatak – a Greenlandic word meaning a mountain peak that protrudes above a glacier or ice cap.

Ice pack – floating ice, formed from frozen seawater, often creating an insurmountable barrier for ships.

Polynja – Russian word meaning an area of ​​coastal waters surrounded by an ice pack.

postholing – form of wandering, during which hikers pass through fields of crumbling or melted snow, collapsing to the thighs with each step.

He sticks – lity, solid ice.

Marginal fissure – rift at the top of the valley glacier, separating the moving ice from the parent ice field.

Horn (horn) – sharp peak, being a remnant of the glacier, which has rubbed all the sides around the mountain peak.

Glacial gutter (hanging valley) – a valley formed by a valley glacier flowing into a larger valley glacier.

Glacial rift – a rift in a moving mass of ice, it can be hidden under the snow, created by various loads when ice flows downward.

Ice glaze – a thin crust of ice in the sea, which moves up and down with the movement of the waves, but it does not break.

Shry – needle-shaped ice crystals, which create soggy, and before that hardened snow floating in the sea.

Tarn – Greek word for a lake in a circus.

Tide crack – English term for the rift separating sea ice from the shore, caused by ebb and flow.

Stamping – a mound of ice in the shape of a hill, formed by the accumulation of ice floes.

Ice cream piston – a flat piece of ice floating in the sea, usually ice pack; sometimes it is called small icebergs.

A frozen glacier – valley glacier, who stopped near the sea.

Zastrugi – Russian word for furrows in the glacier's snow cover, caused by the action of the wind.