tidewater
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When a tidewater glacier thins enough, it can lift off the seabed and begin floating on the ocean surface.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026
Many Antarctic glaciers are tidewater glaciers, meaning they sit on the ocean floor and extend into the sea, where they release icebergs.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026
Less than a week before the trout were evacuated, 760 northern tidewater gobies — tiny endangered fish — were scooped out of the same watershed and transported to aquariums.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025
The roadway was not immediately cleared, and in time, the tidewater goby took up residence.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023
Faced with the obvious folly of his original ambition, to walk five hundred miles to tidewater, he reconsidered his plans.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
