1831 H. T. de la Beche iii. 170 It was not until 1804 that this mass fell on the sand, and disclosed the ice-preserved elephant, whose tusks were cut off and sold by the Tungusian chief.
1880 A. R. Wallace 176 The ice-preserved Arctic mammalia.
1992 (Nexis) 22 May p10 Two dweeb teen-agers unearth an ice-preserved blue-eyed caveman while digging a backyard swimming pool.