meltwater
meltwater
Definition
melt·water (melt′wôt′ər)
noun
water produced by the melting of snow or ice
meltwater
Usage Examples
Preposition: from
- sheet: The most likely potential source for such an anomaly is meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet in a global warming scenario.
Converse of object
- produce: This and four others produce meltwater that flows off into three oceans: the Arctic, Pacific and the Atlantic.
Adjective modifier
- glacial: However, in the Himalaya upwards of 80 % of flow in the major longitudinal rivers is glacial meltwater.
- subglacial: Basal sediment evacuation by subglacial meltwater: suspended sediment transport from Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland.
Modifies a noun
- channel: The ridge is defined by broad meltwater channels currently occupied by minor streams.
- stream: Surface meltwater streams on the glacier are highlighted in blue; crevasses in green.
- erosion: It demonstrates variable ice retreat rates during deglaciation and contains pristine examples of ice contact topography, unaltered by post-depositional meltwater erosion.
- flow: The physical processes that govern meltwater flow through snow are complex and spatially variable.
- runoff: Rippled terrain, probably caused by meltwater runoff, on the slopes of A Chioch to the west.
- incision: These contain visually prominent ridges and spreads of glaciofluvial sediments separated by deep meltwater incision.
Converse of subject
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