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- noun Plural form of
icefield .
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Examples
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At the close of the season ships should not leave Churchill later than the middle of October, because at that date winter has set in, and being caught in the icefields is a serious matter when the flows become cemented together by the increasing cold.
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The horizon righted itself again and we were soaring—a shaky kind of soaring—out over the icefields, ice that went on forever, studded with the massive, craggy tips of hidden mountains.
Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010
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Touched an iceberg (if glaciers count - Columbia icefields!)
Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah 2008
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This ecoregion is covered by rocky slopes, icefields, and glaciers.
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And maybe he's welcoming Global Warming because his Big Oil pals are telling him they'd love to run tankers through what used to be icefields…
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Surface material deposits from glaciers and icefields form moraines which are colonized by lichens and mosses, horsetail Equisetum sp., willows Salix spp., fire weed Epilobium sp., and mountain avens Dryas drummondii.
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"They lived and died for it on the icefields," added her brother Randy Dawe.
A Second Red Sea Emerges as Canada Begins Killing Seals 2008
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Terrain: mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks, icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords
Iceland 2008
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Nevertheless, its varied and majestic landscapes that include high mountain peaks, enormous icefields, and innumerable fjords are inhabited by unique and endemic animal and plant species that are sometimes abundant within this ecoregion.
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There are four terrestrial habitats in and around the properties: wet tundra; coastal western hemlock Tsuga heterophylla/sitka spruce forest Picea sitchensis; alpine tundra; and glaciers and icefields.
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