subglacial
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sub·gla·cial
(sŭb-glā′shəl)adj.
Formed or deposited beneath a glacier.
sub′gla′cial·ly adv.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
subglacial
(sʌbˈɡleɪsɪəl)adj
(Physical Geography) formed or occurring at the bottom of a glacier
subˈglaciallyadv
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
sub•gla•cial
(sʌbˈgleɪ ʃəl)adj.
occurring or situated beneath a glacier, either at the present time or at some time in the past.
[1810–20]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
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We soon left the path and took to the ice; and after wandering amongst the crevices UN PEU, to admire the wonders of these deep blue caverns, and hear the rushing of waters through theirsubglacial channels, we struck out a course toward L'AUTRE CO^T'E and crossed the glacier successfully, a little above the cave from which the infant Rhone takes its first bound from under the grand precipice of ice.
Lead author Jade Hatton from the University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences, said: 'It is important we understand the role glaciers play in silicon cycling and we have examined previously published work consideringsubglacial weathering and nutrient fluxes to bring together this review, focusing upon the chemical fingerprint of silicon exported from these environments.'
Subglacial discharge occurs when large volumes, or plumes, of buoyant meltwater are released below the glacier.
Glaciers sit onsubglacial streams, or thin layers of water, but drying these streams could slow their slide into the sea.
O'Brien PE, Leitchenov G and Harris PT (1997) Iceberg Plough Marks,Subglacial Bedforms and Grounding Zone Moraines in Prydz Bay Antarctica.
However, a subsequent study published in Nature in September 2018 analyzed layers of sediment from the ocean floor deposited the last time the WilkesSubglacial Basin, part of the Eastern Antarctic due south of Australia, melted around 125,000 years ago.
However, a subsequent study pub-lished in Nature in September 2018 ana-lyzed layers of sediment from the ocean floor deposited the last time the WilkesSubglacial Basin, part of the Eastern Antarctic due south of Australia, melted around 125,000 years ago.
Researchers announced the discovery of asubglacial lake on which planet in July?
On Earth, wheresubglacial lakes in Antarctica can have temperatures as low as -13[degrees]C, the freezing point of their water is depressed by the presence of large amounts of salt --much more than is present in Earth's oceans.
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