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- noun A
subglacial outburst flood .
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From Icelandic jökulhlaup ("glacier burst")
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reesetee commented on the word jökulhlaup
Also see jokulhlaup.
November 18, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word jökulhlaup
"A glacier outburst flood resulting from the failure of a glacier-ice-dam, glacier-sediment-dam, or from the melting of glacier ice by a volcanic eruption" - definition given in the USGS Glossary of Glacier Terminology. Icelandic.
April 17, 2010