piedmont type of glacier

English Thesaurus

1. a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice (noun.object)

hypernym	:	glacier,
definition	:	a slowly moving mass of ice (noun.object)

instance hyponym	:	great mendenhall glacier, mendenhall glacier,
definition	:	a glacier of the Piedmont type near Juneau in Alaska (noun.object)