Moulin (Noun)
Meaning
A chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation; "the icy river plunged, roaring, into the moulin's blue depths".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- A narrow moulin formed rapidly where the glacial lake drained into the dense ice mass.
- The moulin at the surface was the starting point for a turbulent, ice-boring journey to the glacier's depths.
- At its base, the pristine moulin revealed an uncharted subglacial landscape that would shed new light on geological processes.
- Scientists were amazed to see the moulin swallowing water, snow, and ice at an unbelievably rapid rate.
- Glacierspéologists inserted a video probe into a glacial moulin, finally revealing the mysterious depths that once captivated explorers.