Ice stream

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Term: Ice stream
Definition: (1) a current of ice in an ice sheet or ice cap that flows faster than the surrounding ice (2) sometimes refers to the confluent sections of a branched-valley glacier (3) obsolete synonym of valley glaciers.
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Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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