namakier

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English

Etymology

Blend of Persian نمک (namak, salt) +‎ glacier. First use appears c. 1970. See cite below.

Noun

namakier (plural namakiers)

  1. Synonym of salt glacier
    • 1970, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology (contributor), Report of Investigations - Issues 142-146, page 18:
      Namakiers represent large, recumbent sheath folds underlain and flanked by rigid bedrock and overlain by air.
    • 1987, Munn & Company (contributor), Scientific American - Volume 257, page 79:
      Hence the namakier consists of a stack of overlapping tongues.
    • 1998, Andrew C. Scott, Derek John Blundell (editors), Lyell - The Past is the Key to the Present, page 320:
      Most salt extrusions rising on high ground are asymmetric and feed only one namakier.
    • 2006, John K. Warren, Evaporites: Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons, page 471:
      Small ephemeral features, including shallow caves, are typical of the salt glacier surface, but in an active namakier the salt is flowing too fast to preserve them.
    • 2022, Marcia Bjornerud, Geopedia - A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities, page 95:
      From Farsi for "mountain of salt," a namakier is perhaps more accurately described as a glacier of salt that can flow over the land surface as fast as inches per year, rivaling its icy counterparts for speed.