Plucking — Pluck or plucking may refer to: *Plucking (hair removal), the removal of hair, fur, or feathers **Feather plucking, a behavior in birds *Plucking (glaciation), a process related to glaciers *Pluck (card game), a card game * Pluck (play), a play… … Wikipedia
Glacier — This article is about the geological formation. For other uses, see Glacier (disambiguation). The Baltoro Glacier in the Karakoram, Kashmir, Northern Pakistan. At 62 kilometres (39 mi) in length, it is one of the longest alpine glaciers on… … Wikipedia
glacial landform — ▪ geology Introduction any product of flowing ice and meltwater. Such landforms are being produced today in glaciated areas, such as Greenland, Antarctica, and many of the world s higher mountain ranges. In addition, large expansions of present… … Universalium
Geology of the Yosemite area — The exposed geology of the Yosemite area includes primarily granitic rocks with some older metamorphic rock. The first rocks were laid down in Precambrian times, when the area around Yosemite National Park was on the edge of a very young North… … Wikipedia
Glaciology — (from Middle French dialect (Franco Provençal): glace , ice ; or Latin: glacies , frost, ice ; and Greek: λόγος, logos , speech lit. to talk about ice ) is the study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice.… … Wikipedia
Europe — /yoor euhp, yerr / for 1; /yoo roh pee, yeuh / for 2, n. 1. a continent in the W part of the landmass lying between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, separated from Asia by the Ural Mountains on the E and the Caucasus Mountains and the Black and… … Universalium
Esker — An esker is a long winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America. Eskers are frequently several kilometres long and, because of their peculiar uniform… … Wikipedia
Cirque — For other uses, see Cirque (disambiguation). Two cirques with semi permanent snowpatches in Abisko National Park, Sweden … Wikipedia
Moraine — This article is about geological phenomena. For other uses, see Moraine (disambiguation). A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (soil and rock) which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly… … Wikipedia
Excavation glaciaire — Zone d’excavation, cirque glaciaire R … Wikipédia en Français
