单词 | ice-scoured |
释义 | > as lemmasice-scoured ice-scoured adj. Geology subjected to or shaped by ice-scouring. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [adjective] > specific processes plucked1893 ice-scoured1897 quarried1909 transfluent1951 sapped1972 1897 Amer. Geologist 19 193 The rounded outline so characteristic of an ice-scoured country is good positive evidence of ice action. 1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xvi. 385 Where the surface over which the ice caps moved was mountainous..the result was not an ice-scoured plain, but a general smoothing off..of the topography. 2005 D. Bredes Fifth Season vi. 54 Many a town has grown up under the gaze of a solitary mountain...Ours was Mount Joseph, an ice-scoured monadnock four miles northeast of Tipton village. < as lemmas |
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