icemelt
nounEtymology From ice + melt.
1
The melting of a geographical mass of ice.
- Many of the Sierra Nevada fans have associated perennial streams fed by rainfall, snowmelt or glacial icemelt in the catchments.2002, Ireneo Peter Martini, Victor R Baker, Guillermina Garzón, Flood and megaflood processes and deposits: recent and ancient examples:
- Related terms
- snowmelt