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This glossary defines geographic terms related to physical geography. It includes definitions for: 1) Crevasse, which is an opening on a levee that drains water from a floodplain or a fracture on a glacier. 2) Critical entrainment velocity, the speed required to pick up particles into moving air or water. 3) The crust, Earth's outer solid rock layer between 7-70km thick with oceanic and continental types.

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This glossary defines geographic terms related to physical geography. It includes definitions for: 1) Crevasse, which is an opening on a levee that drains water from a floodplain or a fracture on a glacier. 2) Critical entrainment velocity, the speed required to pick up particles into moving air or water. 3) The crust, Earth's outer solid rock layer between 7-70km thick with oceanic and continental types.

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585Glossary of Term

Crevasse
(1) Opening on a levee that allows for the drainage of water from the floodplain to
the stream channel.
(2) Fracture on the brittle surface of a glacier.

Critical Entrainment Velocity


Velocity required to entrain a particular sized particle into the moving medium of air
or water.

Crust
Earth's outer most layer of solid rock. Between 7 to 70 kilometers thick. Two types of
crust exist: oceanic crust and continental crust.

Cryosol Soil
Soil order (type) of the Canadian System of Soil Classification. This soil is common
to high latitude tundra environments. The main identifying feature of this soil is a
layer of permafrost within one meter of the soil surface.

Cryostatic Pressure
Pressure exerted on a substance by ice at rest.

Cryotic
Something that is frozen.

Cumulus Cloud
Puffy clouds with relatively flat bases. Cumulus clouds form when moist warm air
bubbles vertically escape from the Earth's surface. Found in an altitude range from
300 to 2,000 meters.

Cumulonimbus Cloud
A well developed vertical cloud that often has top shaped like an anvil. These clouds
are very dense with condensed and deposited water. Weather associated with this
cloud includes: strong winds; hail; lightning; tornadoes; thunder; and heavy rain.
When this weather occurs these clouds are then thunderstorms. Can extend in
altitude from a few hundred meters above the surface to more than 12,000 meters.

Cuspate Foreland
Is a triangular accumulation of sand and/or gravel located along the coastline. This
feature is formed by the joining of two spits.

Cyanobacteria
Bacteria that have the ability to photosynthesize.

Cyclogenesis
Process of cyclone formation, maturation, and death.

Cyclone

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