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As the slow movement of a large mass of ice shapes the land

: glacialmente

To our delight, it indeed was a broad, gentle valley of glacially transported boulders draped over bedrock.
glacially carved
glacially deposited

Examples

These glacially formed lakes are known for their stunning blue color and clarity, attracting visitors year-round.
Its defining natural features include rugged mountains, crystal clear, glacially carved lakes, and the headwaters of the Hudson River.

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The Great Bay, located 10 miles inland from New Hampshire's coast, is a glacially formed estuary.

Academic text (1998)
Its moraines and large glacially transported boulders are visible in the foreground.

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The broad, U-shaped valley at their feet was clearly glacially shaped, and in the center of the deep bowl directly below them was an immense tarn, an upper mountain lake.

Fiction book (2002)
It winds, tracing the rolling topography of the glacially smoothed mountains with views of the Tombstone Range we passed through via the Dempster in the distance.

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The landscape was shaped glacially, with deep valleys and smooth hills created by ancient ice movement.
As we hiked along the trail, we marveled at the glacially carved cliffs that surrounded us on all sides.

glacially positive

glacially = glacial (transparent) = glacial + ly

Formed directly from the adjective 'glacial' with the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', giving a literal meaning 'by or relating to glacial action'.

Glacially comes from glacier, a 'river of ice' that slowly moves and shapes the land, so glacially can mean 'by the action of a glacier'.