Converse of object

• melt: Has Jesus's amazing grace melted the glacier in your heart?

• crevasse: Sabretooth Pro Crampons offer high performance for mixed masters, whether you're climbing a heady thin pillar or crossing a sketchy crevassed glacier.

• calve: Its incredible calving glaciers include the most productive in the world, which advances 30 meters every 24 hours.

• shimmer: The calm waters of Paradise Harbor host many sculptured icebergs, calved from a backdrop of shimmering glaciers.

• shrink: In arid western China, shrinking glaciers account for at least 10 percent of freshwater supplies.

• retreat: The meres were formed by retreating glaciers, or at least that is what experts want us to believe.

Adjective modifier

• polythermal: Using borehole ground-penetrating radar to measure the water content of warm ice in a polythermal glacier in Arctic Sweden ( Ref.

• temperate: This work focuses on temperate glaciers in the Alps, polythermal glaciers in the Arctic, and cold glaciers in Antarctica.

• alpine: Cross the Continental Divide and behold incomparable vistas of lush meadows, alpine glaciers, and thundering waterfalls.

• Antarctic: A recently published study in Science magazine indicates that up to 90 % of Antarctic glaciers are losing mass.

• Icelandic: Tephrochronology to study the response of Icelandic glaciers to climate change.

• Swiss: Perhaps his drawings of quartz from Swiss glaciers might even interest Professor Macdonald FRSE.

Modifies a noun

• hydrology: Research My research interests focus, in the broadest sense, on glacier hydrology.

• skiing: This ensures a long season from November through to May with glacier skiing throughout most of the summer.

• melting: The science of glacier melting: Like other aspects of climate change, some authorities deny that it is happening.

• fluctuation: WC2N aims to understand the links between climate variability and glacier fluctuations in British Columbia and western Alberta.

• crossing: The route can be extended in time and difficulty to include ascents of peaks, glacier crossings and rock scrambles.

Noun used with modifier

• tidewater: In the afternoon we plan helicopter flights over Devon Island, viewing the tidewater glaciers on the eastern coast and ideally making landings.

• cirque: Easdale Tarn lies in a rock basin that was formed by a cirque glacier perched high up above the main valley of Far Easdale.

• melting: Water from a melting glacier may be the source of a river.