glacial
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- adjective
- /ˈɡleɪʃəl/
- Specialized
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glacial
- Ephemeral streams transport the glacial meltwater to terminal lakes that lose water only through sublimation and evaporation.
- glacial lake
- glacial meltwater
- glacial retreat
How far back did some of these glacial core samples take us?
- How far back did some of these glacial core samples take us?
- Next thing is crushed Gaia green glacial rock dust.
- When we're going from a glacial to an interglacial condition, well, that's not us.
- They they, they say that what happened was that glacial glacial lakes formed in North America, glacial Lake Missoula and glacial Lake Agassiz.
- So in the high latitudes of Scandinavia or Alaska, the land is still uplifting because the ice receded their last, so there's glacial rebound.
- And over hundreds and then thousands and hundreds of thousands of years, all those layers start to compress and they become more dense and they become glacial ice.
Examples
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During the last glacial peak, about 18,000 years ago, the ice reached almost this far south.
Academic text (2009) -
The large boulders scattered along the trail were broken off and dragged along by glacial action.
Academic text (2011) -
So during the last glacial maximum, there was a whole area here where the plants were unable to grow.
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How far back did some of these glacial core samples take us?
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But here comes a glacial stream coming down from the ice sheet.
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Mt. Kilimanjaro has less than 25 percent of the glacial area it had a century ago.
Academic text (2000) -
And then the colors, like dawn upon a glacial ice field: subtle, profound, riveting.
Fiction book (2002) -
A talus slope dropped from the ridge to a glacial basin containing a small lake.
Fiction book (1991) -
Originally a glacial lake, the fen has filled in with vegetation, notably sphagnum, or peat moss.
Academic text (2011) -
The scientists studied the glacial formations that were carved by the retreating ice sheets.
Synonyms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
glacial = glacier (semi-transparent) = glaci + al
This is a regular adjective formation from the glacier/glaci- stem plus -al, though the stem is bound and slightly less obvious than an ordinary free base.
Etymology
Glacial comes from the Latin glacies, meaning 'ice', and shares its root with glacier. It describes things made by or from glaciers, such as land and rocks shaped by slowly moving ice.