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单词 englacial
释义

englacialadj.

/ɛnˈɡleɪʃ(ɪ)əl/
Etymology: < en- prefix1 + glacial adj.
Embedded in or passing over a glacier.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [adjective] > embedded in
englacial1891
intraglacial1895
1891 R. D. Salisbury Geol. Surv. New Jersey 87 On one of the Alaskan glaciers..an englacial stream appears at the surface of the ice,..pursues a super-glacial course for a short distance, and plunges again beneath an ice arch and pursues for an undetermined distance an englacial course.
1891 Amer. Geologist Dec. 376 The purpose of this paper is to call attention of glacialists to the means of discrimination of the portion of the drift which, at the time of final melting of the ice-sheet, was enclosed within the ice and therefore is called englacial drift by Pres. Chamberlin, and the portion which was subglacial, lying under the ice.
1896 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 4 961 Superglacial and englacial streams might be supposed to make deposits in their channels.
1904 T. C. Chamberlin & R. D. Salisbury Geol. (1905) I. 268 A surface load..buried by snow and ice..is englacial.
1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 81 304 The greatest part of the englacial debris.
1935 Nature 20 Apr. 605/2 The blanketing effect of the silt brought down by en-glacial and sub-glacial streams.

Derivatives

enˈglacially adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [adverb] > in manner of being embedded in
englacially1925
1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 315 The medial moraine from the north-east shoulder of Everest, carried englacially.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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