Definition & Meaning | English word NIVATION
NIVATION
Definitions of NIVATION
- (geology) Erosion caused by freezing and thawing due to snow.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using NIVATION in a Sentence
- Earlier views have suggested the lake may be an volcanic explosion crater, a nivation hollow or formed by fluvial erosion or as plunge pool of glacial meltwater.
- As a geomorphologist in the Great North of Greenland, he raised the map of the coast to 1:100 000 (topography, geomorphology of screes and nivation, sea ice).
- He and his co-workers have done research on geomorphological mapping, glaciation, and periglaciation, as well as many related topics such as frost weathering, nivation, solifluction, hydrology, debris flow, rockfall, slope stability, and wind erosion.
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