BERGSCHRUND (Ger. Berg, mountain; Schrund, cleft or crevice)

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BERGSCHRUND (Ger. Berg, mountain; Schrund, cleft or crevice) , a gaping crack in the upper

part

PART

of a snowfield or

glacier

, near the

rock

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
RICHARD
_1694_1778_.html">WALL,
RICHARD
(1694-1778)

, caused by the

glacier

moving bodily away from the

mountain

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical
mons
- MONS (Flemish Bergen)
, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

-side as the

mass

settles downwards. The crack is roughly parallel to the

rock

-face of.the upper edge of the glacier basin, and extends downwards to the solid rock beneath the glacier where at the bottom of this huge crevasse there are blocks of ice, and large pieces of rock torn off by the

lower

LOWER

portion of the glacier from the rock

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

and floor.

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