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glaciolacustrine

glaciolacustrine adjective: of, or pertaining to lakes that are created or fed by glaciers.

Adjective

glaciolacustrine (not comparable)

  1. Of, or pertaining to lakes that are created or fed by glaciers.
    • Glaciotectonic deformation requires a glaciolacustrine environment, or a similar very water-saturated setting such as a fjord.2012, M. Huuse, J. Redfern, D. P. Le Heron, Glaciogenic Reservoirs and Hydrocarbon Systems, →ISBN, page 47

Origin of glaciolacustrine

From glacio- + lacustrine.

Questions about glaciolacustrine

What does glaciolacustrine mean?
Glaciolacustrine means of, or pertaining to lakes that are created or fed by glaciers.
What part of speech is glaciolacustrine?
Glaciolacustrine is an adjective.

Words near glaciolacustrine in the dictionary

  1. glacioisostasy
  2. glacioisostatic
  3. glaciokarst
  4. glaciokarstic
  5. glaciokarsts
  6. glaciolacustrine
  7. glaciologic
  8. glaciological
  9. glaciologically
  10. glaciologies
  11. glaciologist

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