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ICY |
Glacial |
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ICEAGE |
Glacial era |
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FJORD |
Glacial inlet |
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FJORDS |
Glacial inlets |
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MORAINE |
Glacial deposit |
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ICE AGE |
Glacial period (3,3) |
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AGE |
Glacial period, ice ... |
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NEVER-ENDING |
Constant glacial snow splitting apart |
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NEVERENDING |
Constant glacial snow splitting apart |
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PREGLACIAL |
Prior to the glacial or drift period. |
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PALEOCRYSTIC |
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial
formation. |
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GLACIATION |
The process of glaciating, or the state of being
glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena. |
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GLACIATE |
To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of
rocks, transportation of loose material, etc. |
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GLACIAL |
Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice;
frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena. |
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PERIOD |
One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the
Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. |
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CHAMPLAIN PERIOD |
A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately
following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake
Champlain. |
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DILUVIUM |
A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones,
etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of
glacial ice. |
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DRUMLIN |
A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till,
usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former
local glacial motion. |
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SHEEPBACK |
A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep.
-- produced by glacial action. Called also roche moutonnee; -- usually
in the plural. |
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METAPHOSPHORIC |
... HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid,
obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric
acid... |
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UNSTRATIFIED |
Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as
granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the
glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata. |