- a jumbled mass of pulverized ice broken from the terminus of a glacier at the edge of a mountain shelf
- that part of a valley glacier descending an unusually steep slope where the ice is broken by crevasses
icefall
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icefall
noun
- The part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall that flows down a steep slope.
- An avalanche of ice.
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Noun
(plural icefalls)
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