| 单词 | ice boulder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasice boulder ice boulder n. (a) a large rounded block of ice; (b) Geology a boulder transported by glacial action. ΚΠ 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvii. 438 One was a conglomerate of great ice-bowlders, stained of a dark tint, but cemented together by ice that was perfectly clear. 1887 J. A. Harvie-Brown & T. E. Buckley Vertebr. Fauna Outer Hebrides p. xvii Here Dr. Heddle discovered a very remarkable ice-boulder, which had evidently been borne from a seam in a hill-side on the mainland of Harris, about three miles distant to the north-west. 1921 A. W. Grabau Comprehensive Geol. I. xvi. 505 As ice boulders may be buried in such a delta, kettleholes may develop subsequently by their melting. 1995 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 125 120 Rectangular dry-stone leacht, ruined, on a low knob of outcrop... On its centre stands a plain ice-boulder 70cm in height. 2003 N. Watson Dundee Whalers i. 27 The stricken Dundee ship was five miles away and could be reached only by a highly hazardous trek across ice boulders. < as lemmas |
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