CREVASSE

Crevasse

A crevasse is a deep crack in an ice sheet or glacier, as opposed to a crevice, which forms in rock. Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the shear stress generated when two semi-rigid pieces above a plastic substrate have different rates of movement. The resulting intensity of the shear stress causes a breakage along the faces.

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crevasse

Noun

  1. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snow field; a chasm.
  2. A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.

Verb

  1. To form crevasses.


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