(French, "mill") A shaft by which supraglacial meltwater enters a glacier to become englacial or subglacial.
a cylindrical, vertical hole in glacial ice.
A narrow, tubular chute or crevasse through which water enters a glacier from the surface. Occasionally, the lower end of a moulin may be exposed in the face of a glacier or at the edge of a stagnant block of ice. -------------------------- N-O Nunatak A mountain peak or ridge that pokes through the surface of an Ice Field or a Glacier. It may separate adjacent Valley Glaciers (Greenlandic).
a nearly vertical channel in ice that is formed by flowing water; usually found after a relatively flat section of glacier in a region of transverse crevasses; also called a pothole.
A circular depression on the surface of a glacier in the ablation zone into which meltwater funnels. Also called glacier mill.
a nearly vertical shaft or cvityworn in a glacier by surface water falling through a crack in the ice. [AHDOS
A moulin or glacier mill is a narrow, tubular chute, hole or crevasse through which water enters a glacier from the surface. They can be up to 10 meters wide and are typically found at a flat area of a glacier in a region of transverse crevasses. Moulins can go all the way to the bottom of the glacier and can be hundreds of meters deep, or may reach the depth of common crevasse formation (about 10-40m) where the stream flows englacially.