- Crevasse - Wikipedia
A crevasse is a deep crack that forms in a glacier or ice sheet Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the shear stress generated when two semi-rigid pieces above a plastic substrate have different rates of movement
- CREVASSE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Crevasse refers to a deep hole or fissure in a glacier or in the earth In most instances, the word appears with enough context that the depth of the opening is easy enough to figure out, as in "a climber who fell 30 feet into a crevasse "
- Crevasse | Glacial, Ice Shelf, Fracture | Britannica
Crevasse, fissure or crack in a glacier resulting from stress produced by movement Crevasses range up to 20 m (65 feet) wide, 45 m (148 feet) deep, and several hundred metres long
- Crevasse - Education
A crevasse is a deep, wedge-shaped opening in a moving mass of ice called a glacier Crevasses usually form in the top 50 meters (160 feet) of a glacier, where the ice is brittle
- CREVASSE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Each time you move from one gallery to another you cross the line of a crevasse and glimpse the horizon
- Crevasses (U. S. National Park Service) - NPS
A second type of crevasse forms when the ice piles up on itself, crunching and cracking These crevasses form like faults in the Earth's crust, with blocks of ice moving past one another along a crack
- CREVASSE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Crevasse definition: a fissure, or deep cleft, in glacial ice, the earth's surface, etc See examples of CREVASSE used in a sentence
- crevasse noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of crevasse noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
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