meltwater
mel two ter
- n melted snow or ice
- Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater into the sea but dumping whole glaciers.
- According to a study in the current issue of Science, they have nearly doubled their rate of flow over the past five years, to about 8 miles a year, dumping icebergs and meltwater .
- The environmental group Greenpeace placed ice sculptures of 100 children made of the glacial meltwater that feeds China's great rivers inside the temple to symbolize the .