• Ice-foot

    Full definition of ice-foot

    Noun

    ice-foot

    (plural ice-foots or ice-feet)
      • 1882 , James Geikie , The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man , Along that part of the coast of Greenland where the ice-foot is shed at the end of every summer, the quantities of rock debris thus borne seawards must be something prodigious.
      • 1973 , , Michigan Academician - Volume 6 , Marsh et al. (1973) and Bryan & Marcus (1973) report the occurrence of sand and pebble-sized sediments in the ice-foots of Lake Superior, and Fahnestock et al. (1973, Figure 6) photographed a 20 kg block of shale that was deposited on the flank of an ice-cone by wave activity.
      • 2014 , Otto Neumann Sverdrup , New Land , On the evening of July 5, therefore, we drove to Noresund; but here we were met by absolutely ice-free water, and had to take to the ice-foot in order to reach the fast ice inside the fjord.
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