Glacier vs Detritus - What's the difference?
glacier | detritus |
(countable, chiefly, geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
(biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
debris or fragments of disintegrated material
As nouns the difference between glacier and detritus
is that glacier is a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill while detritus is pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.detritus
English
Noun
(wikipedia detritus)- 2001'. "But of course: no clutter. No newspapers, no renegade scraps of domestic '''detritus , no rubber bands, paper clips, coupons, pens or pencils, notebooks, magazines. No knives. Where were the knives?" — Chip Kidd. ''The Cheese Monkeys
