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rock glacier

landform of angular rock debris frozen in interstitial ice, former "true" glaciers overlain by a layer of talus, or something in between
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rock glacier

Summary

rock glacier ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (55 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • rock glacier's image is recorded as RockGlacier.JPG[2].
  • rock glacier's GND ID is recorded as 4146035-2[3].
  • rock glacier's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85114670[4].
  • rock glacier's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13507719g[5].
  • rock glacier's subclass of is recorded as glacier[6].
  • rock glacier's subclass of is recorded as frozen ground[7].
  • rock glacier's Commons category is recorded as Rock glaciers[8].
  • rock glacier's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/083pj6[9].
  • rock glacier's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/rock-glacier[10].
  • rock glacier's FAST ID is recorded as 1099178[11].
  • rock glacier's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as steinbre[12].
  • rock glacier's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 169556411[13].
  • rock glacier's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C169556411[14].

Why It Matters

rock glacier ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (55 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Library of Congress Control Number. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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