The phrase "glacier terminus" refers to the end or front edge of a glacier where the ice melts or breaks off into water. It's like the "ending point" of the glacier where it meets a body of water or land.
Sentences with «glacier terminus»
Around 14,000 km2 of ice have been lost from ten floating ice shelves (King, 2003), 87 % of glacier termini have retreated (Cook et al., 2005), and seasonal snow cover has decreased (Fox and Cooper, 1998). (ipcc.ch)
This data set contains Alaska tidewater glacier terminus positions digitized from USGS topographic maps and Landsat images. (nsidc.org)
For example, the Helheim terminus remained relatively stable from the 1950s to 20009 — roughly when summer temperatures in Greenland were cooler than average (late 1960s to mid-1990s).8 Beginning around 1995, local summer temperatures began to rise, and in 2001 the Helheim glacier terminus began a rapid retreat that totaled nearly five miles (more than 7.5 kilometers) by 2005.10,11 (climatehotmap.org)