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BT
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terrestrial environment
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NT7
↓
ablation area
NT7
↓
accumulation area
NT7
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active ice wedge
NT7
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alas
NT7
↓
alluvial cone
NT7
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altitude band
NT7
↓
antarctic zone
NT7
↓
arctic zone
NT7
↓
area at high altitude
NT7
↓
arête
NT7
↓
avalanche area
NT7
↓
avalanche catchment area
NT7
↓
avalanche cone
NT7
↓
avalanche exposed area
NT7
↓
barren zone
NT7
↓
basal cryopeg
NT7
↓
basin
►
▼
NT8
↓
arresting basin
NT8
↓
catchment basin
NT8
↓
deep basin
NT7
↓
bay
NT7
↓
bed surface
NT7
↓
bédières
NT7
↓
bedrock
NT7
↓
blow hole
NT7
↓
branch (avalanche)
NT7
↓
brèches
NT7
↓
brow
NT7
↓
calving bay
NT7
↓
chasm
NT7
↓
chattermarks
NT7
↓
cirque
►
▼
NT8
↓
mount cirque
NT8
↓
valley cirque
NT7
↓
clearing
NT7
↓
compound basins
NT7
↓
compressive stress area
NT7
↓
concave furrows
NT7
↓
convex furrows
NT7
↓
cornice
NT7
↓
crater
NT7
↓
crescentic gouges
NT7
↓
crest area
NT7
↓
crevasse
►
▼
NT8
↓
bergschrund
NT8
↓
longitudinal crevasse
NT8
↓
marginal crevasse
NT8
↓
randkluft
NT8
↓
splay crevasse
NT8
↓
transverse crevasse
NT7
↓
crown surface
NT7
↓
cryostructure
►
▼
NT8
↓
basal cryostructure
NT7
↓
debris
►
▼
NT8
↓
basal debris
NT8
↓
englacial debris
NT8
↓
supraglacial debris
NT7
↓
deep abyssal plain
NT7
↓
deposit (avalanche)
NT7
↓
descent passage
NT7
↓
drumlin
NT7
↓
dry-snow zone
NT7
↓
erratic
NT7
↓
esker
NT7
↓
firn basin
NT7
↓
fjord
NT7
↓
flank
►
▼
NT8
↓
rocky flank
NT7
↓
flutes
NT7
↓
folds
►
▼
NT8
↓
fold (glacier)
NT7
↓
foot of a rock face
NT7
↓
foothills
NT7
↓
fractured surface
NT7
↓
frost
►
▼
NT8
↓
advection frost
NT7
↓
gendarme
NT7
↓
glacial groove
NT7
↓
glacial trough
NT7
↓
glacier
►
▼
NT8
↓
cavities at glacier bed
►
▼
NT9
↓
englacial conduit
NT8
↓
cold glacier
NT8
↓
confluent glacier
NT8
↓
debris covered glacier
NT8
↓
diffluent glacier
NT8
↓
drainage glacier
NT8
↓
glacier hinge line
NT8
↓
glacier sole
NT8
↓
glacieret and snowfield
NT8
↓
grounding line (zone)
NT8
↓
hanging glacier
NT8
↓
ice cap
►
▼
NT9
↓
Arctic ice cap
NT8
↓
ice sheet
►
▼
NT9
↓
Antarctic ice sheet
NT9
↓
aufeis
NT9
↓
Greenland ice sheet
NT9
↓
ice sheet mass steady state
NT9
↓
ice sheet on depressed bed
NT9
↓
Laurentide ice sheet
NT9
↓
marine ice sheet
NT9
↓
sticky spot
NT8
↓
inlandsis
NT8
↓
mountain glacier
NT8
↓
niche glacier
NT8
↓
piedmont glacier
►
▼
NT9
↓
expanded foot glaciers
NT8
↓
polar glacier
NT8
↓
polythermal glacier
NT8
↓
regenerated glacier
NT8
↓
remnant glacier
NT8
↓
reservoir glaciers
NT8
↓
retreating glacier
NT8
↓
rock glaciers
►
▼
NT9
↓
active rock glacier
NT9
↓
ice-cemented rock glaciers
NT9
↓
ice-cored rock glaciers
NT8
↓
snowdrift glacier
NT8
↓
sub-polar glacier
NT8
↓
surging glaciers
NT8
↓
temperate glacier
NT8
↓
terminus
NT8
↓
tidewater glacier
NT8
↓
tributary glacier
NT8
↓
trunk glacier
NT8
↓
valley glacier
►
▼
NT9
↓
branched-valley glacier
NT9
↓
outlet glacier
NT8
↓
wet-based glacier.
NT8
↓
zone of glacier
NT7
↓
glacier front
►
▼
NT8
↓
confluent front
NT8
↓
expanded foot
NT8
↓
lobed front
NT8
↓
piedmont front
NT7
↓
glacier mill
NT7
↓
glacier table
NT7
↓
gliding snow area
NT7
↓
gorge
NT7
↓
ground
►
▼
NT8
↓
noncryotic ground
NT7
↓
ground surface
NT7
↓
group
NT7
↓
gully
NT7
↓
gully (avalanche)
►
▼
NT8
↓
avalanche gully
NT8
↓
snow gully
NT7
↓
harbour
NT7
↓
headwall
NT7
↓
hollow
►
▼
NT8
↓
shallow basin
NT7
↓
horn
NT7
↓
hummock
►
▼
NT8
↓
grounded hummock
NT8
↓
thufur
NT7
↓
hump
NT7
↓
ice apron
NT7
↓
ice cave
NT7
↓
ice cone
NT7
↓
ice divide
NT7
↓
ice dome
NT7
↓
ice mushroom
NT7
↓
ice ridge
►
▼
NT8
↓
aged ridge
NT8
↓
consolidated ridge
NT8
↓
new ridge
NT8
↓
pressure ridge
NT8
↓
shear ridge
►
▼
NT9
↓
shear ridge field
NT8
↓
weathered ridge
NT7
↓
ice sheet surface undulations
NT7
↓
icefall
NT7
↓
icicle
NT7
↓
initial failure
NT7
↓
inlet
NT7
↓
interspace
NT7
↓
isostatic depression
NT7
↓
kame
NT7
↓
kame deposits
NT7
↓
kame terrace
NT7
↓
kettle holes
NT7
↓
layer
►
▼
NT8
↓
acid layers (in ice)
NT8
↓
active layer
NT8
↓
annual layer
NT8
↓
basal ice layer
NT8
↓
base of the snowpack
NT8
↓
bomb layers in ice
NT8
↓
bottom layer
NT8
↓
bottom layer of old snow
NT8
↓
boundary layer
NT8
↓
fracture layer
NT8
↓
glide surface
NT8
↓
layer without cohesion
NT8
↓
lubricating layer
NT8
↓
melt layer
NT8
↓
pereletok
NT8
↓
radioactive layers in ice
NT8
↓
regelation layer
►
▼
NT9
↓
regelation layer at glacier base
NT8
↓
sedimentary bands
NT8
↓
shear bands
NT8
↓
snow layer
NT8
↓
surface layer
NT8
↓
thin layer
NT8
↓
weak layer
►
▼
NT9
↓
weak cohesion layer
NT7
↓
ledge
NT7
↓
maze of crevasses
NT7
↓
melt channels
►
▼
NT8
↓
Clarke-channel
NT8
↓
Nye channel
NT8
↓
Röthlisberger channel
NT7
↓
moraine
►
▼
NT8
↓
ablation moraine
NT8
↓
fluted moraines
NT8
↓
folded moraines
NT8
↓
ground moraine
NT8
↓
lateral moraines
NT8
↓
medial moraines
►
▼
NT9
↓
ablation-dominant moraines (AD)
NT9
↓
ice-stream interaction moraines (ISI)
NT8
↓
neoformation moraine
NT8
↓
overlayed moraine
NT8
↓
recessional moraines
NT8
↓
shear moraines
NT8
↓
tardi-glacial moraine
NT8
↓
terminal moraines
►
▼
NT9
↓
dump moraine
NT9
↓
push moraines
NT7
↓
morainic bank
NT7
↓
morainic ridge
NT7
↓
mountain pass
NT7
↓
mountain-pasture
NT7
↓
narrow terrace
NT7
↓
natural breaking buttress
NT7
↓
niche
NT7
↓
nunatak
NT7
↓
obstacle
►
▼
NT8
↓
obstacle surrounded by the avalanche
NT7
↓
ogives
►
▼
NT8
↓
band ogives
NT8
↓
waved ogives
NT7
↓
openings in the ice
►
▼
NT8
↓
cavities within glacier
NT8
↓
fracture
►
▼
NT9
↓
crack
►
▼
NT10
↓
brittle fracture
NT10
↓
flaw
NT10
↓
frost crack
NT10
↓
glide crack
NT10
↓
strand crack
NT10
↓
tide crack
NT9
↓
large fracture
NT9
↓
medium fracture
NT9
↓
secondary fracture
NT9
↓
shear fracture
NT9
↓
small fracture
NT9
↓
very small fracture
NT8
↓
fracture zone
NT8
↓
lead
►
▼
NT9
↓
flaw leads
NT9
↓
shore lead
NT8
↓
polynya
►
▼
NT9
↓
[according to formation mechanism]
►
▼
NT10
↓
latent heat polynya
NT10
↓
sensible heat polynya
NT9
↓
[according to position]
►
▼
NT10
↓
flaw polynya
NT10
↓
open-ocean polynya
NT10
↓
recurring polynya
NT10
↓
shore polynya
NT7
↓
outer area
NT7
↓
outwash plain
NT7
↓
palsa
NT7
↓
palsa bog
NT7
↓
patterned ground
NT7
↓
peak
NT7
↓
penitentes
NT7
↓
percolation zone
NT7
↓
periglacial zone
NT7
↓
permafrost
►
▼
NT8
↓
active permafrost
NT8
↓
saline permafrost
NT8
↓
well-bonded permafrost
NT8
↓
yedoma
NT7
↓
pingo
NT7
↓
plateau
NT7
↓
precipice
NT7
↓
projection
NT7
↓
protected reafforestation area
NT7
↓
pulpit
NT7
↓
random furrows
NT7
↓
ravine
NT7
↓
reservoir area in surge
NT7
↓
rib
NT7
↓
ridge
NT7
↓
rôche moutonnée
NT7
↓
rock barrier
NT7
↓
rock face
NT7
↓
rock needle
NT7
↓
rock ridge
NT7
↓
runout zone
NT7
↓
sag
NT7
↓
scarp
NT7
↓
secondary summit
NT7
↓
serac
NT7
↓
shear planes
►
▼
NT8
↓
thrust planes
NT7
↓
shear zone
NT7
↓
shoulder
NT7
↓
simple basin
NT7
↓
sliding surface
NT7
↓
slope
►
▼
NT8
↓
avalanche slope
NT8
↓
concave slope
NT8
↓
convex slope
NT8
↓
east slope
NT8
↓
fluted snow slope
NT8
↓
foot of a slope
NT8
↓
grassy slope
NT8
↓
lee slope
NT8
↓
north slope
NT8
↓
open slope
NT8
↓
opposite side slope
NT8
↓
reverse slope
NT8
↓
scree slope
NT8
↓
shaded slope
►
▼
NT9
↓
shady side
NT8
↓
slope in the shade
NT8
↓
slope with accumulation of drifted snow
NT8
↓
snow covered slope
NT8
↓
south slope
NT8
↓
steep slope
►
▼
NT9
↓
extreme slope
NT9
↓
extreme steep slope
NT8
↓
sunny slope
►
▼
NT9
↓
sunny area
NT8
↓
upwind slope
NT8
↓
west slope
NT7
↓
slope surface
NT7
↓
slush zone
NT7
↓
smooth surface of snow
NT7
↓
snow barkhan
NT7
↓
snow bridge
NT7
↓
snow cap
NT7
↓
snow cover
►
▼
NT8
↓
old snow cover
NT8
↓
seasonal snow cover
NT7
↓
snow cups
NT7
↓
snow dune
NT7
↓
snow ridge
NT7
↓
snow slab
►
▼
NT8
↓
hard slab
NT8
↓
snow slab on lee slope
NT8
↓
soft slab
NT8
↓
wind-slab
NT7
↓
snowfield
NT7
↓
snowpack
►
▼
NT8
↓
carrying snow
NT8
↓
stable snowpack
NT8
↓
unstable snowpack
NT7
↓
solid base of snow cover
►
▼
NT8
↓
weak base of snow cover
NT7
↓
spur
NT7
↓
stalactite
NT7
↓
stalagmite
NT7
↓
starting area
NT7
↓
stemming area
NT7
↓
striation
NT7
↓
subglacial tunnel
NT7
↓
submarine sill
NT7
↓
summit
NT7
↓
suncup
NT7
↓
superimposed-ice zone
NT7
↓
talik
►
▼
NT8
↓
lake talik
NT7
↓
talweg
NT7
↓
tarn
NT7
↓
tensile stress area
NT7
↓
terrace
NT7
↓
terrain
►
▼
NT8
↓
boulder field
NT8
↓
steep ground
►
▼
NT9
↓
extreme steep ground
NT7
↓
thaw holes (flat terrain)
NT7
↓
transition zone (stream shelf)
NT7
↓
tundra
NT7
↓
valley
►
▼
NT8
↓
glacial breach
NT8
↓
hanging valley
NT8
↓
valley flank
NT8
↓
valley floor
NT7
↓
varve
NT7
↓
volcanic deposits in ice sheet
NT7
↓
wall
NT7
↓
waning sector
NT7
↓
watershed
NT7
↓
wavy snowsurface
NT7
↓
wet-snow zone
NT7
↓
whaleback
NT7
↓
wind crater
NT7
↓
windripples
NT7
↓
zone of crevasses
NT7
↓
zone of deposition
NTI7
↓
glacier cover
Italiano
[aree e forme del rilievo terrestri]
Date of creation
14-Nov-2014
Accepted term
14-Nov-2014
Descendant terms
407
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