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Significats de ice tongue en anglès

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Long, narrow sheet of ice projecting from a coastline.

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Examples for "glacier tongue"
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The glacier tongue was still reaching over this rocky area.
Reuters
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As far as I can see the open water extends to an east and west line which is a little short of the glacier tongue.
Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
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The next day we sighted a long, low ice wall, and took it at first for a long glacier tongue stretching seaward from the land.
Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
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The Mertz Glacier Tongue, at a point 50 miles from the land
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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We reached Glacier Tongue about one and a half miles from the seaward end.
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
Ús de ice tongue en anglès
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All this time he'd heard the distant booming and grinding of this massive ice tongue.
Assail
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Coastal glaciers like this floating ice tongue tend to block the ice flow headed for the sea.
Reuters
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Several more technical aid moves, and after two hours nerve-grinding climbing Mugs reached an ice tongue that led to easier ground.
Climbing Magazine
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Massom said the shearing off of the ice tongue and the presence of the Mertz and B-9B icebergs could affect global ocean circulation.
Reuters
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It also meant crossing the Drygalski Ice Tongue, an obstacle which bulked very formidably in their imaginations during the winter.
The Worst Journey in the World / Antarctic 1910-1913
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The edges of these ice tongues are often as abrupt as if sliced away with a knife (Fig.
The Elements of Geology
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As the ice tongues receded, the streams gradually dried; only the larger ones, fed far back in the range, are left to-day.
The Rim of the Desert
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