glaciology
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7.0
- noun
- /ˌɡleɪ.siˈɑː.lə.dʒi/
- Specialized
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glaciología
- Sometimes I ponder all the scientific disciplines that fundies must believe are the work of the devil—palynology, dendrochronology, paleoanthropology, glaciology, etc.—because they show that the Earth is much older than six thousand years, and I cry a little on the inside.
So he read the feminist glaciology paper through and carefully and and then he just sort of didn't speak for three days.
- So he read the feminist glaciology paper through and carefully and and then he just sort of didn't speak for three days.
Examples
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So he read the feminist glaciology paper through and carefully and and then he just sort of didn't speak for three days.
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An international team of scientists has discovered nanosize diamonds in the Greenland ice sheet, according to a study presented in the Journal of Glaciology.
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William O. Field directed research on glaciology from his office on the first floor of the AGS headquarters.
Academic text (2004) -
Because the members of the glaciology team are faced with a very short time frame in which to complete their work, we decided that we would split into two groups the next day.
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Carl recalled that this boy had listened attentively to his glaciology lectures and realized he was going to ask a question.
Fiction book (1999) -
"When I took my first course in glaciology," Box says, "conventional thought had the reaction time of the ice sheets to heating on the order of 10,000 years."
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Glaciology's last few
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She sat beside him one day in his glaciology class—a gut to complete his science requirements—and she had forgotten to bring her book; would he mind if she looked at his?
Fiction book (1999) -
Understanding glaciology is crucial for predicting the effects of climate change on glaciers.
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At the university, students can choose glaciology as a specialization within their earth science degree.
How Specialized
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7.0
- Specialized
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3.5
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3.4
∞
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
glaciology = glaci + ology
The word is built from the bound classical form glaci- and the clear suffix -ology, but the base is not a standalone everyday English word, so the meaning is only partly predictable.
Etymology
The word glaciology is made of the part glaci- meaning 'ice', the same part in glacier and glacial. The ending -logy means 'study', as in biology, so glaciology is the 'study of ice', especially glaciers.