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crevasse

deep crack, or fracture, found in an ice sheet or glacier
Class type of: fracture Q862193
crevasse
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Facts

5 properties
Instance of
geologic feature
Subclass of
fracture[2]
Part of
glacier[3]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[4]
Different from
moulin[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en crevasse ar شق جليدي cs ledovcová trhlina de Eisspalte de Gletscherspalte de Spaltensturz es grieta es crevass fa یخ‌کافت fi Railo fr fissure hu gleccserhasadék hu gleccserszakadék id krevas it Crepacci it crepaccio ja クレバス ko 크레바스 nl crevasse nl gletsjerspleet
🔖 Identifiers · 20
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh2005020013
GND ID
4157596-9
OpenAlex ID
C2778744917
BBC Things ID
4da74ac9-b4d1-4157-b8a5-df39d06942ef
BNCF Thesaurus ID
67575
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.312
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/crevasse
Environment Ontology ID
00000320
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org
FAST ID
1737032
Freebase ID
/m/020tng
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
escletxa-0
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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0104642
J9U entity ID
987007537563805171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
crevasses
KBpedia ID
Crevasse
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2778744917
Topic's main category
Category:Crevasses
Treccani ID
crepaccio
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
09282583-n

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🔗 Connections
Belongs to 1
icefall
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Different from 1
moulin
Part of 1
glacier
Subclass of 1
fracture
Subtypes 1
bergschrund
← Different from 1
moulin
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Summary

crevasse is a geologic feature[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → glacier
    Instance of → geologic feature
    Subclass of → fracture
    Different from → moulin
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007537563805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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