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    The addition of mass to a glacier is called accumulation. What is the loss of mass from a glacier called?

    Question #59574. Asked by UT-7. (Sep 26 05 9:04 AM)


    picqero

    		ablation

    Sep 26 05, 3:02 PM
    tylerhein

    		glaication

    Sep 26 05, 5:42 PM
    gmackematix

    		The word erosion is used of glaciers and the masses of ice and rock they deposit are known as moraine (terminal, lateral or medial).
    Ablation is used to mean glacial shrinkage due to evaporation and melting.
    The area of a glacier where it is losing mass is called the wastage zone as opposed to the accumulation zone.
    If a glacier starts wholesale melting, this is known as deglaciation.

    Sep 26 05, 6:33 PM
    JoshCaleb12

    		... don't forget "calving"... the process by which chunks of glaciers fall off into the ocean and become icebergs...

    Sep 27 05, 7:44 AM
    dejavucub4

    		Julio eglaciatoin?

    Sep 27 05, 4:16 PM

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