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Glacial

Pertaining to ice or to its action consisting of ice frozen icy esp pertaining to glaciers as glacial phenomena...


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...


Champlain period

A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period so named from beds near Lake Champlain...


Diluvium

A deposit of superficial loam sand gravel stones etc caused by former action of flowing waters or the melting of glacial ice...


metaphosphoric

Pertaining to or designating a monobasic acid HPO3 analogous to nitric acid and by heating phosphoric acid obtained as a crystalline substance commonly called glacial phosphoric acid Compare the tribasic orthophosphoric acid...


Paleocrystic

Of pertaining to or derived from a former glacial formation...


Postglacial

Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality...


Preglacial

Prior to the glacial or drift period...


Sheepback

A rounded knoll of rock resembling the back of a sheep produced by glacial action Called also roche moutonneacutee usually in the plural...


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