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glaciofluvial

glaciofluvial adjective: pertaining to water flowing on, in, or against glaciers or ice sheets.

Adjective

glaciofluvial (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to water flowing on, in, or against glaciers or ice sheets.
    • Trends in dominance of glaciofluvial deposits or of till and lacustrine deposits can be recognized.1902, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper - Volume 1418, →ISBN, page 17
    • Another unusual ice-contact feature is an esker, a long, narrow, steep-sided ridge of glaciofluvial sand and gravel inhabiting a glaciated area.1988, Robert Phillip Sharp, Living Ice: Understanding Glaciers and Glaciation, page 149

Forms of glaciofluvial

alternative formglacifluvial

Origin of glaciofluvial

From glacio- + fluvial.

Questions about glaciofluvial

What does glaciofluvial mean?
Glaciofluvial means pertaining to water flowing on, in, or against glaciers or ice sheets.
What part of speech is glaciofluvial?
Glaciofluvial is an adjective.

Words near glaciofluvial in the dictionary

  1. glaciodynamics
  2. glacioeustasy
  3. glacioeustatic
  4. glacioeustatically
  5. glacioeustatism
  6. glaciofluvial
  7. glaciofluviatile
  8. glaciogenic
  9. glaciohydraulic
  10. glaciohydrologic
  11. glaciohydrological

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