Definition of glacial in English:

glacial

adjective ˈɡleɪsɪəlˈɡleɪʃ(ə)lˈɡleɪʃəl

1Relating to or denoting the presence or agency of ice, especially in the form of glaciers.
thick glacial deposits
a glacial lake
Example sentencesExamples
- Fifteen glacial tongues of ice can be seen without leaving your car.
- Later he became strongly opposed to the theory that proglacial lakes were formed by the agency of huge glacial dams.
- The new work confirms the stable relationship between Antarctic climate and the greenhouse gasses carbon dioxide and methane during the last four glacial cycles.
- The plains and valleys here often consist of glacial moraine or deposits from ancient lakes.
- The vivianite occurs in dark brown and dark gray beds of glacial silt and clay.
- It is unknown how many more veins that occur in this area may contain worldclass specimens because most of the land is covered with glacial till deposits and outcrops are scarce.
- Several minerals, classified as drift minerals in this article, are present in Pleistocene glacial deposits.
- In some sections these high values declined to more moderate values just below the glacial deposits.
- During cold glacial times, desert regions become more arid and the production of silt increases and its transportation is enhanced.
- A body embedded in glacial ice - what else could this be but the gruesome record of a climbing accident?
- In the last million years, the Earth has been through seven glacial cycles, the last of which - named the Holocene - began 10,000 years ago.
- In contrast, glacial and periglacial deposits, such as dropstones, were formed at high latitudes; these are notably important in the late Carboniferous and early Permian.
- Reference is made to the dating presence of shells and glacial deposits, and the burial chronology and body size reduction evidence.
- When the glaciers melted and receded, the copper and rock were dropped from the ice sheets and became part of the glacial deposits.
- We propose that the last glacial maximum Welsh Ice Cap formed part of a much larger and more dynamic British-Irish Ice Sheet.
- Although this may not sound like a large increase, it may be enough to affect the rate of glacial melting, raising sea levels, and to otherwise have an impact on the earth's climate.
- Gypsum crystals are present, occurring in Pleistocene glacial lake beds of bluish-gray silt and clay that are exposed along the banks of the creek.
- From the 3,000 foot glacial valley where the plane dropped us off, we went after our first slopes, undulating falls that one of the many Vinson ice tributaries.
- Like glacial terminal moraines, these population groups represented deposits resulting from four centuries of immigration.
- These processes can be observed occurring in the near-surface at present and have also affected late Devensian and pre-late Devensian glacial deposits.
- We have 420,000 years of climate history at our fingertips, covering the last four glacial and interglacial cycles.
1. 1.1 Very cold; icy.
  glacial temperatures
  figurative his glacial blue eyes
  Example sentencesExamples
  His sword continued to blaze, its hilt now a shapeless mass of brilliant glacial blue light.
  The Supreme Court could accept it, but I expect that anyone that would appeal wouldn't just have a chilly reception, but a perfectly glacial reception.
  This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to his work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues.
  I could see across the flood plain towards rivers of blue glacial ice cascading down from the flanks of distant mountains.
  He wondered if Clara had packed her blue satin dress - no it still clung to the wardrobe hook, like ice, glacial blue.
  Throughout the world lie lush forests, arid deserts, glacial mountains.
  The movie's emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites.
  A glacial frigidity has taken the place of the wild party.
  He looked at the angry, confused faces on the screen frozen against a glacial blue sky.
  Dozens of icebergs, each a few feet high, float lazily, their whiteness turning to a glacial blue in the depths.
  She leaned back and looked into the glacial blue of his eyes.
  His blue eyes were the color of glacial ice and his black hair was as dark as space.
  As the car slowly rolled past him, he raised his bowl to the window, not speaking, and stared at me for a moment with celestial, incomprehensible, glacial blue eyes.
  But his glacial blue eyes reflect a glint of triumph.
  We climbed slowly towards the Katantika Pass, inching towards the magnificent, glaciated summits of Presidente and Flor, their white snow tinged with glacial blue.
  Synonyms
  freezing, bitterly cold, icy, ice-cold, sub-zero, frozen, wintry
  arctic, polar, Siberian
  bitter, biting, piercing, raw, cutting
  literary chill, frore
  rare gelid, brumal, rimy, algid
2. 1.2 Extremely slow (like the movement of a glacier)
  an official described progress in the talks as glacial
  Example sentencesExamples
  Can this glacial movement towards an uncertain goal even warrant the term ‘progress’?
  If a would-be spammer had to perform one second of computation for each person he spammed, the pace of spam would slow to glacial.
  The pace of life in the deep sea is literally glacial, species grow extremely slowly and they live to extraordinary ages.
  Corporate movements are glacial and update stories are boring, boring, boring (as you are about to find out).
  He hired his grandsons by the hour to dispose of brush, and was surprised and outraged at the studied, glacial pace of their movements.
2Chemistry
Denoting pure organic acids (especially acetic acid) which form ice-like crystals on freezing.
Example sentencesExamples
- After incubation at 30°C for 90 s, the reaction was stopped by the addition of 1.0 ml glacial acetic acid, and was stirred vigorously.
- Fixing was performed in a mixture of glacial acetic acid and methyl alcohol at a ratio of 1: 3.
- Excised buds (10 for each sample) were fixed in absolute ethanol: glacial acetic acid.
- The term superacids was introduced into the chemical literature in 1927 by James Conant and Norris Hall to describe solutions of sulfuric or perchloric acid in glacial acetic acid.
- For this reason, pure acetic acid is known as glacial acetic acid.

noun ˈɡleɪsɪəlˈɡleɪʃ(ə)lˈɡleɪʃəl

Geology

A glacial period.
Example sentencesExamples
- Denny said he had never seen this much glacial till on an iceberg.
- There have been a number of cold periods (glacials or ice ages), punctuated by warmer periods, of which we are living in one.
- But if the present glacial comes it will be the real disaster; forget global warming, global cooling's the real one.
- This then provides the opportunity for Milankovich cycles to become the pacemaker of the ice ages, causing alternating glacials and interglacials.
- The climate was cooler than today but warmer than a full glacial, with sand and silt forming in shallow, flowing water in the form of sheet-wash or in ephemeral channels.

Derivatives

glacially

adverb

Glaciation has had little influence on the soils in this area, with the exception of the alluvial or terrace soils formed from the movement of glacially derived material down stream valleys.
Example sentencesExamples
- A large interior plateau contains dense forests, thousands of lakes and peat bogs, and rocky infertile soils associated with a glacially modified landscape with numerous drumlins and eskers.
- There has been some progress but it has been glacially slow.
- In place of a clearly discernible melody, the piece evolves glacially with fuzzy smears, distorted shards, and industrial buzzing constellating around the drone.
- The Head was glacially political but clearly annoyed.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French, or from Latin glacialis 'icy', from glacies 'ice'.

Rhymes

abbatial, craniofacial, facial, fascial, interracial, multiracial, palatial, primatial, racial, spatial

Definition of glacial in US English:

glacial

adjectiveˈɡlāSHəlˈɡleɪʃəl

1Relating to, resulting from, or denoting the presence or agency of ice, especially in the form of glaciers.
thick glacial deposits
a glacial lake
Example sentencesExamples
- These processes can be observed occurring in the near-surface at present and have also affected late Devensian and pre-late Devensian glacial deposits.
- The vivianite occurs in dark brown and dark gray beds of glacial silt and clay.
- Fifteen glacial tongues of ice can be seen without leaving your car.
- We have 420,000 years of climate history at our fingertips, covering the last four glacial and interglacial cycles.
- During cold glacial times, desert regions become more arid and the production of silt increases and its transportation is enhanced.
- In some sections these high values declined to more moderate values just below the glacial deposits.
- Although this may not sound like a large increase, it may be enough to affect the rate of glacial melting, raising sea levels, and to otherwise have an impact on the earth's climate.
- Several minerals, classified as drift minerals in this article, are present in Pleistocene glacial deposits.
- In the last million years, the Earth has been through seven glacial cycles, the last of which - named the Holocene - began 10,000 years ago.
- Reference is made to the dating presence of shells and glacial deposits, and the burial chronology and body size reduction evidence.
- Gypsum crystals are present, occurring in Pleistocene glacial lake beds of bluish-gray silt and clay that are exposed along the banks of the creek.
- It is unknown how many more veins that occur in this area may contain worldclass specimens because most of the land is covered with glacial till deposits and outcrops are scarce.
- From the 3,000 foot glacial valley where the plane dropped us off, we went after our first slopes, undulating falls that one of the many Vinson ice tributaries.
- The new work confirms the stable relationship between Antarctic climate and the greenhouse gasses carbon dioxide and methane during the last four glacial cycles.
- We propose that the last glacial maximum Welsh Ice Cap formed part of a much larger and more dynamic British-Irish Ice Sheet.
- The plains and valleys here often consist of glacial moraine or deposits from ancient lakes.
- Like glacial terminal moraines, these population groups represented deposits resulting from four centuries of immigration.
- When the glaciers melted and receded, the copper and rock were dropped from the ice sheets and became part of the glacial deposits.
- In contrast, glacial and periglacial deposits, such as dropstones, were formed at high latitudes; these are notably important in the late Carboniferous and early Permian.
- Later he became strongly opposed to the theory that proglacial lakes were formed by the agency of huge glacial dams.
- A body embedded in glacial ice - what else could this be but the gruesome record of a climbing accident?
1. 1.1 Very cold; icy.
  figurative his glacial blue eyes
  the glacial mountains of New Zealand
  Example sentencesExamples
  I could see across the flood plain towards rivers of blue glacial ice cascading down from the flanks of distant mountains.
  A glacial frigidity has taken the place of the wild party.
  She leaned back and looked into the glacial blue of his eyes.
  He looked at the angry, confused faces on the screen frozen against a glacial blue sky.
  As the car slowly rolled past him, he raised his bowl to the window, not speaking, and stared at me for a moment with celestial, incomprehensible, glacial blue eyes.
  The movie's emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites.
  We climbed slowly towards the Katantika Pass, inching towards the magnificent, glaciated summits of Presidente and Flor, their white snow tinged with glacial blue.
  Throughout the world lie lush forests, arid deserts, glacial mountains.
  This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to his work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues.
  His blue eyes were the color of glacial ice and his black hair was as dark as space.
  But his glacial blue eyes reflect a glint of triumph.
  The Supreme Court could accept it, but I expect that anyone that would appeal wouldn't just have a chilly reception, but a perfectly glacial reception.
  He wondered if Clara had packed her blue satin dress - no it still clung to the wardrobe hook, like ice, glacial blue.
  Dozens of icebergs, each a few feet high, float lazily, their whiteness turning to a glacial blue in the depths.
  His sword continued to blaze, its hilt now a shapeless mass of brilliant glacial blue light.
  Synonyms
  freezing, bitterly cold, icy, ice-cold, sub-zero, frozen, wintry
2. 1.2 Extremely slow (like the movement of a glacier)
  an official described progress in the talks as glacial
  Example sentencesExamples
  If a would-be spammer had to perform one second of computation for each person he spammed, the pace of spam would slow to glacial.
  Can this glacial movement towards an uncertain goal even warrant the term ‘progress’?
  The pace of life in the deep sea is literally glacial, species grow extremely slowly and they live to extraordinary ages.
  Corporate movements are glacial and update stories are boring, boring, boring (as you are about to find out).
  He hired his grandsons by the hour to dispose of brush, and was surprised and outraged at the studied, glacial pace of their movements.
2Chemistry
Denoting pure organic acids (especially acetic acid) which form ice-like crystals on freezing.
Example sentencesExamples
- The term superacids was introduced into the chemical literature in 1927 by James Conant and Norris Hall to describe solutions of sulfuric or perchloric acid in glacial acetic acid.
- After incubation at 30°C for 90 s, the reaction was stopped by the addition of 1.0 ml glacial acetic acid, and was stirred vigorously.
- Fixing was performed in a mixture of glacial acetic acid and methyl alcohol at a ratio of 1: 3.
- Excised buds (10 for each sample) were fixed in absolute ethanol: glacial acetic acid.
- For this reason, pure acetic acid is known as glacial acetic acid.

nounˈɡlāSHəlˈɡleɪʃəl

Geology

A glacial period.
Example sentencesExamples
- There have been a number of cold periods (glacials or ice ages), punctuated by warmer periods, of which we are living in one.
- The climate was cooler than today but warmer than a full glacial, with sand and silt forming in shallow, flowing water in the form of sheet-wash or in ephemeral channels.
- Denny said he had never seen this much glacial till on an iceberg.
- This then provides the opportunity for Milankovich cycles to become the pacemaker of the ice ages, causing alternating glacials and interglacials.
- But if the present glacial comes it will be the real disaster; forget global warming, global cooling's the real one.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French, or from Latin glacialis ‘icy’, from glacies ‘ice’.

单词	glacial
释义	Definition of glacial in English: glacial adjective ˈɡleɪsɪəlˈɡleɪʃ(ə)lˈɡleɪʃəl 1Relating to or denoting the presence or agency of ice, especially in the form of glaciers. thick glacial deposits a glacial lake Example sentencesExamples Fifteen glacial tongues of ice can be seen without leaving your car. Later he became strongly opposed to the theory that proglacial lakes were formed by the agency of huge glacial dams. The new work confirms the stable relationship between Antarctic climate and the greenhouse gasses carbon dioxide and methane during the last four glacial cycles. The plains and valleys here often consist of glacial moraine or deposits from ancient lakes. The vivianite occurs in dark brown and dark gray beds of glacial silt and clay. It is unknown how many more veins that occur in this area may contain worldclass specimens because most of the land is covered with glacial till deposits and outcrops are scarce. Several minerals, classified as drift minerals in this article, are present in Pleistocene glacial deposits. In some sections these high values declined to more moderate values just below the glacial deposits. During cold glacial times, desert regions become more arid and the production of silt increases and its transportation is enhanced. A body embedded in glacial ice - what else could this be but the gruesome record of a climbing accident? In the last million years, the Earth has been through seven glacial cycles, the last of which - named the Holocene - began 10,000 years ago. In contrast, glacial and periglacial deposits, such as dropstones, were formed at high latitudes; these are notably important in the late Carboniferous and early Permian. Reference is made to the dating presence of shells and glacial deposits, and the burial chronology and body size reduction evidence. When the glaciers melted and receded, the copper and rock were dropped from the ice sheets and became part of the glacial deposits. We propose that the last glacial maximum Welsh Ice Cap formed part of a much larger and more dynamic British-Irish Ice Sheet. Although this may not sound like a large increase, it may be enough to affect the rate of glacial melting, raising sea levels, and to otherwise have an impact on the earth's climate. Gypsum crystals are present, occurring in Pleistocene glacial lake beds of bluish-gray silt and clay that are exposed along the banks of the creek. From the 3,000 foot glacial valley where the plane dropped us off, we went after our first slopes, undulating falls that one of the many Vinson ice tributaries. Like glacial terminal moraines, these population groups represented deposits resulting from four centuries of immigration. These processes can be observed occurring in the near-surface at present and have also affected late Devensian and pre-late Devensian glacial deposits. We have 420,000 years of climate history at our fingertips, covering the last four glacial and interglacial cycles. 1.1 Very cold; icy. glacial temperatures figurative his glacial blue eyes Example sentencesExamples His sword continued to blaze, its hilt now a shapeless mass of brilliant glacial blue light. The Supreme Court could accept it, but I expect that anyone that would appeal wouldn't just have a chilly reception, but a perfectly glacial reception. This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to his work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues. I could see across the flood plain towards rivers of blue glacial ice cascading down from the flanks of distant mountains. He wondered if Clara had packed her blue satin dress - no it still clung to the wardrobe hook, like ice, glacial blue. Throughout the world lie lush forests, arid deserts, glacial mountains. The movie's emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites. A glacial frigidity has taken the place of the wild party. He looked at the angry, confused faces on the screen frozen against a glacial blue sky. Dozens of icebergs, each a few feet high, float lazily, their whiteness turning to a glacial blue in the depths. She leaned back and looked into the glacial blue of his eyes. His blue eyes were the color of glacial ice and his black hair was as dark as space. As the car slowly rolled past him, he raised his bowl to the window, not speaking, and stared at me for a moment with celestial, incomprehensible, glacial blue eyes. But his glacial blue eyes reflect a glint of triumph. We climbed slowly towards the Katantika Pass, inching towards the magnificent, glaciated summits of Presidente and Flor, their white snow tinged with glacial blue. Synonyms freezing, bitterly cold, icy, ice-cold, sub-zero, frozen, wintry arctic, polar, Siberian bitter, biting, piercing, raw, cutting literary chill, frore rare gelid, brumal, rimy, algid 1.2 Extremely slow (like the movement of a glacier) an official described progress in the talks as glacial Example sentencesExamples Can this glacial movement towards an uncertain goal even warrant the term ‘progress’? If a would-be spammer had to perform one second of computation for each person he spammed, the pace of spam would slow to glacial. The pace of life in the deep sea is literally glacial, species grow extremely slowly and they live to extraordinary ages. Corporate movements are glacial and update stories are boring, boring, boring (as you are about to find out). He hired his grandsons by the hour to dispose of brush, and was surprised and outraged at the studied, glacial pace of their movements. 2Chemistry Denoting pure organic acids (especially acetic acid) which form ice-like crystals on freezing. Example sentencesExamples After incubation at 30°C for 90 s, the reaction was stopped by the addition of 1.0 ml glacial acetic acid, and was stirred vigorously. Fixing was performed in a mixture of glacial acetic acid and methyl alcohol at a ratio of 1: 3. Excised buds (10 for each sample) were fixed in absolute ethanol: glacial acetic acid. The term superacids was introduced into the chemical literature in 1927 by James Conant and Norris Hall to describe solutions of sulfuric or perchloric acid in glacial acetic acid. For this reason, pure acetic acid is known as glacial acetic acid. noun ˈɡleɪsɪəlˈɡleɪʃ(ə)lˈɡleɪʃəl Geology A glacial period. Example sentencesExamples Denny said he had never seen this much glacial till on an iceberg. There have been a number of cold periods (glacials or ice ages), punctuated by warmer periods, of which we are living in one. But if the present glacial comes it will be the real disaster; forget global warming, global cooling's the real one. This then provides the opportunity for Milankovich cycles to become the pacemaker of the ice ages, causing alternating glacials and interglacials. The climate was cooler than today but warmer than a full glacial, with sand and silt forming in shallow, flowing water in the form of sheet-wash or in ephemeral channels. Derivatives glacially adverb Glaciation has had little influence on the soils in this area, with the exception of the alluvial or terrace soils formed from the movement of glacially derived material down stream valleys. Example sentencesExamples A large interior plateau contains dense forests, thousands of lakes and peat bogs, and rocky infertile soils associated with a glacially modified landscape with numerous drumlins and eskers. There has been some progress but it has been glacially slow. In place of a clearly discernible melody, the piece evolves glacially with fuzzy smears, distorted shards, and industrial buzzing constellating around the drone. The Head was glacially political but clearly annoyed. Origin Mid 17th century: from French, or from Latin glacialis 'icy', from glacies 'ice'. Rhymes abbatial, craniofacial, facial, fascial, interracial, multiracial, palatial, primatial, racial, spatial Definition of glacial in US English: glacial adjectiveˈɡlāSHəlˈɡleɪʃəl 1Relating to, resulting from, or denoting the presence or agency of ice, especially in the form of glaciers. thick glacial deposits a glacial lake Example sentencesExamples These processes can be observed occurring in the near-surface at present and have also affected late Devensian and pre-late Devensian glacial deposits. The vivianite occurs in dark brown and dark gray beds of glacial silt and clay. Fifteen glacial tongues of ice can be seen without leaving your car. We have 420,000 years of climate history at our fingertips, covering the last four glacial and interglacial cycles. During cold glacial times, desert regions become more arid and the production of silt increases and its transportation is enhanced. In some sections these high values declined to more moderate values just below the glacial deposits. Although this may not sound like a large increase, it may be enough to affect the rate of glacial melting, raising sea levels, and to otherwise have an impact on the earth's climate. Several minerals, classified as drift minerals in this article, are present in Pleistocene glacial deposits. In the last million years, the Earth has been through seven glacial cycles, the last of which - named the Holocene - began 10,000 years ago. Reference is made to the dating presence of shells and glacial deposits, and the burial chronology and body size reduction evidence. Gypsum crystals are present, occurring in Pleistocene glacial lake beds of bluish-gray silt and clay that are exposed along the banks of the creek. It is unknown how many more veins that occur in this area may contain worldclass specimens because most of the land is covered with glacial till deposits and outcrops are scarce. From the 3,000 foot glacial valley where the plane dropped us off, we went after our first slopes, undulating falls that one of the many Vinson ice tributaries. The new work confirms the stable relationship between Antarctic climate and the greenhouse gasses carbon dioxide and methane during the last four glacial cycles. We propose that the last glacial maximum Welsh Ice Cap formed part of a much larger and more dynamic British-Irish Ice Sheet. The plains and valleys here often consist of glacial moraine or deposits from ancient lakes. Like glacial terminal moraines, these population groups represented deposits resulting from four centuries of immigration. When the glaciers melted and receded, the copper and rock were dropped from the ice sheets and became part of the glacial deposits. In contrast, glacial and periglacial deposits, such as dropstones, were formed at high latitudes; these are notably important in the late Carboniferous and early Permian. Later he became strongly opposed to the theory that proglacial lakes were formed by the agency of huge glacial dams. A body embedded in glacial ice - what else could this be but the gruesome record of a climbing accident? 1.1 Very cold; icy. figurative his glacial blue eyes the glacial mountains of New Zealand Example sentencesExamples I could see across the flood plain towards rivers of blue glacial ice cascading down from the flanks of distant mountains. A glacial frigidity has taken the place of the wild party. She leaned back and looked into the glacial blue of his eyes. He looked at the angry, confused faces on the screen frozen against a glacial blue sky. As the car slowly rolled past him, he raised his bowl to the window, not speaking, and stared at me for a moment with celestial, incomprehensible, glacial blue eyes. The movie's emotional trajectory is also from hot to cold, earth tones to glacial whites. We climbed slowly towards the Katantika Pass, inching towards the magnificent, glaciated summits of Presidente and Flor, their white snow tinged with glacial blue. Throughout the world lie lush forests, arid deserts, glacial mountains. This dispassionate view of man and nature brings an icy edge to his work, intensified by her color choice of glacial whites and gelid blues. His blue eyes were the color of glacial ice and his black hair was as dark as space. But his glacial blue eyes reflect a glint of triumph. The Supreme Court could accept it, but I expect that anyone that would appeal wouldn't just have a chilly reception, but a perfectly glacial reception. He wondered if Clara had packed her blue satin dress - no it still clung to the wardrobe hook, like ice, glacial blue. Dozens of icebergs, each a few feet high, float lazily, their whiteness turning to a glacial blue in the depths. His sword continued to blaze, its hilt now a shapeless mass of brilliant glacial blue light. Synonyms freezing, bitterly cold, icy, ice-cold, sub-zero, frozen, wintry 1.2 Extremely slow (like the movement of a glacier) an official described progress in the talks as glacial Example sentencesExamples If a would-be spammer had to perform one second of computation for each person he spammed, the pace of spam would slow to glacial. Can this glacial movement towards an uncertain goal even warrant the term ‘progress’? The pace of life in the deep sea is literally glacial, species grow extremely slowly and they live to extraordinary ages. Corporate movements are glacial and update stories are boring, boring, boring (as you are about to find out). He hired his grandsons by the hour to dispose of brush, and was surprised and outraged at the studied, glacial pace of their movements. 2Chemistry Denoting pure organic acids (especially acetic acid) which form ice-like crystals on freezing. Example sentencesExamples The term superacids was introduced into the chemical literature in 1927 by James Conant and Norris Hall to describe solutions of sulfuric or perchloric acid in glacial acetic acid. After incubation at 30°C for 90 s, the reaction was stopped by the addition of 1.0 ml glacial acetic acid, and was stirred vigorously. Fixing was performed in a mixture of glacial acetic acid and methyl alcohol at a ratio of 1: 3. Excised buds (10 for each sample) were fixed in absolute ethanol: glacial acetic acid. For this reason, pure acetic acid is known as glacial acetic acid. nounˈɡlāSHəlˈɡleɪʃəl Geology A glacial period. Example sentencesExamples There have been a number of cold periods (glacials or ice ages), punctuated by warmer periods, of which we are living in one. The climate was cooler than today but warmer than a full glacial, with sand and silt forming in shallow, flowing water in the form of sheet-wash or in ephemeral channels. Denny said he had never seen this much glacial till on an iceberg. This then provides the opportunity for Milankovich cycles to become the pacemaker of the ice ages, causing alternating glacials and interglacials. But if the present glacial comes it will be the real disaster; forget global warming, global cooling's the real one. Origin Mid 17th century: from French, or from Latin glacialis ‘icy’, from glacies ‘ice’.
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