Arete

Arete

A jagged, narrow ridge that separates two adjacent glacier valleys or cirques. The ridge frequently resembles the blade of a serrated knife. A French term referring to the bones in a fish backbone.

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Category: Glaciers
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arete

Geography; Physical geography

A sharp, steed-sided ridge in an upland area. Resultant of enlargement of adjacent corries.

aretic

Geography; Physical geography

An area that does not have flowing streams. An example is hot deserts, where any precipitation either soaks into the ground or evaporates.

arete

Earth science; Geology

A narrow, knife-edged ridge with steep sides found in high areas of glaciated regions. These result from the formation of corries.

arete

Water bodies; Glaciers

A jagged, narrow ridge that separates two adjacent glacier valleys or cirques. The ridge frequently resembles the blade of a serrated knife. A French term referring to the bones ...

aret

Language; Dictionaries

To reckon; to ascribe; to impute.

arete

Geography; Human geography

A narrow sharp-crested ridge resulting from the headward extension of neighboring glacial cirques. As the headwalls of the cirques are attacked by glacial plucking, freeze-thaw ...

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Water bodies; Glaciers

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Water bodies; Glaciers

A large persistent body of ice. Originating on land, a glacier flows slowly due to stresses induced by its weight. A glacier forms in a location where the accumulation of snow ...

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A decrease in the length of a glacier compared to a previous point in time. As ice in a glacier is always moving forward, its terminus retreats when more ice is lost at the ...

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