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BARRERA HIELO [1 record]

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Record 1 2007-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glaciology
DEF

Any form of ice floating in water, including ice that is stranded or grounded and ice formed on land but drifting in the sea.

PHR

Floating ice sediment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Glaciologie
DEF

Toute glace qui flotte, mais non forcément à la dérive.

OBS

Les glaces flottantes se rencontrent dans tous les milieux et exercent une action morpho-sédimentologique importante (Dionne, 1970).

OBS

glace flottante : terme souvent utilisé au pluriel (glaces flottantes).

Key term(s)
  • glaces flottantes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Glaciología
DEF

Cualquier forma de hielo que se encuentra flotando en el agua.

CONT

Las principales clases de hielo flotante son hielo lacustre, hielo fluvial y hielo marino, que se forman por la congelación del agua en la superficie; y hielo glaciar(hielo de origen terrestre) formado sobre tierra o en una barrera de hielo. El concepto incluye hielo encallado o varado.

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