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#1 2006-10-28 15:01:48

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1258

glassier/glacier

glassier+melt=586 ghits
glassier+mountain=607 ghits
glassier+ocean=1,309 ghits
(many irrelevant)

I suppose both ice and glass are shiny, hard, cold, usually colourless and allow some passage of light. A glacier looks glassy. Glace cherries look a bit glassy too, but red and glassy – ‘glassy cherries’ = 15 ghits but they are all the same two and I can’t make head nor tail of them…

Depending on the speed of the melting , it could have been perceived as a … this theory that the Canadian Hudson Bay area used to be a huge glassier . ...
www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=2149&page=1 – 55k

The goal of the expedition was a conquer the Island Peak mountain (6200 meters above the sea level) over a glassier, overcoming of an icy wall 80 meters …
www.bistroff.ru/eng/bistroff_company/command.html – 16k –

We saw and drove past a glassier and the road took us high up into the mountains and then back down again. The views were amazing and it would have been …
www.teleotech.co.uk/dancelaines/travel/ … page_4.htm – 14k

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