calving
Ice shelf splitting
Calving is the act of giving birth to a calf.
Cows calve, as do whales, seals, and other large mammals whose young are called calves.
The term also describes ice breaking off from a glacier or iceberg: We watched the glacier calving into the sea.
Both senses involve something large producing something smaller from itself.
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- cowFemale bovine
- heiferChildless female cattle
- herdGrazing animals together
- bullSteer before castration
sire · dam · pasture · ranch · ranching · stockman · veterinarian · breech
Slow-moving ice mass
- icebergFloating glacial fragment
- iceWater's solid form
- crevasseDeep glacial fissure
- seracGlacial ice pinnacle
moraine · fjord · tidewater · ice-shelf · tabular · growler · floe · breakoff
Large North American cervid
- mooseLargest cervid, northern forests
- caribouNorth American arctic deer
- reindeerArctic deer species
- bisonLarge wild ox
whale · cetacean · migration · herd · nursery · predation · vulnerability · tundra
Sanctuary or withdrawal
- meltChange from solid
- collapseSudden structural failure
- disintegrationProcess of breaking apart
- cryosphereEarth's frozen water systems
permafrost · Larsen · acceleration · warming · ocean · thermal · monitoring · satellite
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
bull · sire · dam · pasture · ranch · ranching · stockman · veterinarian · breech · colostrum
glacier
Slow-moving ice mass
serac · moraine · fjord · tidewater · ice-shelf · tabular · growler · floe · breakoff · fracture
elk
Large North American cervid
bison · whale · cetacean · migration · herd · nursery · predation · vulnerability · tundra · taiga
retreat
Sanctuary or withdrawal
- meltChange from solid
- collapseSudden structural failure
- disintegrationProcess of breaking apart
cryosphere · permafrost · Larsen · acceleration · warming · ocean · thermal · monitoring · satellite · research
- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Denali, Sitka, Kodiak
- cattle ranchingcattle, cattle drive, cattle drives, cattle auctions, cattle branding
- livestock farmingcattle ranch, dairy farm, stud farm, sheep shearing, pig farm
- polar regionsAntarctica, polar bears, Arctic Ocean, glaciers, Arctic
- ranchingcattle, ranch, rancher, ranchers, ranching
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
calvingaccumulation
Collected mass over time
accretion · ice formation · compaction · glaciation · freezing
calvingslaughtering
Killing many violently
culling · dying · barrenness · infertility · sterility
calvingfusing
Joining by melting
merging · consolidating · joining · coalescing · aggregating
- calving seasonWhen cows give birth
- glacier calvingIce mass fracturing off
- calving glaciers