gletcher ice

plural gletcher ices

1. uncountableusuallyA type of floating ice formed from precipitation.

   The main part of ice thickness consists of "gletcher ice", formed from atmospheric precipitations with included in it suspended articles of different origin and microbial cells.

   2003 January 30, Irina N. Mitskevich, Margarita N. Poglazova, Sabit S. Abyzov, “Study of the Micro-Organisms Preserved in the Central Antarctic Glacier in Connection with the Problems of Astrobiology”, in Richard B. Hoover, Alexei Yu. Rozanov, Jere H. Lipps, editors, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, →DOI, page 174

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   Gletcher and sea ice should be distinguished among the ice covering the sea surface in high latitudes. The former is generated exclusively from precipitation, being compacted and transformed first into firn and then gletcher ice, after it has broken off glaciers into the sea.

   2009, M. G. Khublaryan, edited by Martin Gaikovich Khublaryan, Types and Properties of Waters (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems; 1), →ISBN, page 18