glaciological feature
C20107
concept
A glaciological feature is any physical form or landform created by the presence, movement, or melting of glacier ice, such as crevasses, moraines, or ice shelves.
Observed surface forms (16)
- glacial cirque ×15
- glacial erratic ×7
- glacial corrie ×4
- glacial confluence ×2
- glacial lobe ×2
- glaciated ridge ×2
- glacial accumulation zone ×1
- glacial cirque basin ×1
- glacial drainage system ×1
- glacial hollow ×1
- glacial meltwater landscape ×1
- glacial ridge ×1
- glacial-tectonic system ×1
- glacially carved feature ×1
- glacier tongue ×1
- glaciological research site ×1
Instances (50)
- Puget Lobe via concept surface "glacial lobe"
- Okanogan Lobe via concept surface "glacial lobe"
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Pombie (local toponym)
via concept surface "glacial cirque"
surface form: Pombie
- Ross Ice Shelf
- Blue Island Ridge via concept surface "glacial ridge"
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Sierra de Gredos
via concept surface "glacial cirque"
surface form: Circo de Gredos
- Balanced Rock (North Salem, New York) via concept surface "glacial erratic"
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Cadair Idris
via concept surface "glacial cirque"
surface form: Cwm Cau
- South Basin via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- North Basin via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- Concordia region via concept surface "glacial confluence"
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Concordia
via concept surface "glacial confluence"
surface form: Concordia (Karakoram)
- Ross Embayment via concept surface "glacial-tectonic system"
- McMurdo Ice Shelf
- Cirque du Fer-à-Cheval via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- Hunter’s Bog via concept surface "glacial hollow"
- George VI Ice Shelf via concept surface "glaciological research site"
- Gros Caillou via concept surface "glacial erratic"
- The Cloughmore Stone via concept surface "glacial erratic"
- Aletschfirn via concept surface "glacial accumulation zone"
- Huntington Ravine via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- Great Gulf via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- Antarctic ice shelves
- Mersey–Dee glacial meltwater landscape via concept surface "glacial meltwater landscape"
- King Ravine via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- Whillans Ice Stream
- Bindschadler Ice Stream
- Kamb Ice Stream
- Corrie Fee via concept surface "glacial corrie"
- Byrd Glacier system via concept surface "glacial drainage system"
- Disappointment Cleaver via concept surface "glaciated ridge"
- Coire Cas via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- Coire an t-Sneachda via concept surface "glacial corrie"
- Coire an Lochain via concept surface "glacial corrie"
- Kluane Icefield
- Campbell Glacier Tongue via concept surface "glacier tongue"
- Disappointment Peak Cleaver via concept surface "glaciated ridge"
- Steamboat Prow via concept surface "glacially carved feature"
- Loch A’an Basin via concept surface "glacial corrie"
- White Rock (boulder) via concept surface "glacial erratic"
- Circo de Gredos via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- Siete Lagunas cirque via concept surface "glacial cirque"
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CROTON FALLS ROAD (Route 116)
via concept surface "glacial erratic"
surface form: Balanced Rock
- Buskam glacial erratic via concept surface "glacial erratic"
- Cwm Idwal via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- Great Basin of Katahdin via concept surface "glacial cirque"
- Chimney Pond area via concept surface "glacial cirque basin"
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Kjeragbolten in Rogaland, Norway
via concept surface "glacial erratic"
surface form: Kjeragbolten
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Giffre Massif
via concept surface "glacial cirque"
surface form: Cirque du Fer-à-Cheval
- Glacier Bay icefield system