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- Dictionaryglacial/ˈɡleɪʃl/
adjective
- 1. relating to or denoting the presence or agency of ice, especially in the form of glaciers: "thick glacial deposits"
- 2. denoting pure organic acids (especially acetic acid) which form ice-like crystals on freezing.
noun
- 1. a glacial period.
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2 days ago · ice age, any geologic period during which thick ice sheets cover vast areas of land. Such periods of large-scale glaciation may last several million years and drastically reshape surface features of entire continents. A number of major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth history.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Further crushing of the individual snow crystals and reduction of entrapped air in the snow turns it into glacial ice. This glacial ice will fill the cirque until it overflows through a geological weakness or an escape route, such as the gap between two mountains.
2 days ago · Artist's rendition of a fully-frozen Snowball Earth with no remaining liquid surface water. The Snowball Earth is a geohistorical hypothesis that proposes during one or more of Earth 's icehouse climates, the planet's surface became nearly entirely frozen with no liquid oceanic or surface water exposed to the atmosphere.
5 days ago · A glacier is a big, slow-moving mass of ice that moves across land. It is wider at the top and gets thinner as it goes down. Even though it is made of ice, a glacier can move because of the heavy snow on top. The sides and bottom move slowly because they rub against the ground and walls of the valley.
- A glacier is a sizable and huge mass of ice that moves slowly.
- Periglacial landforms are a result of severe frost action, frequently in conjunction with permafrost.
- Landforms known as glaciofluvial landforms are the result of glacier meltwater movement. They can develop beneath, on top of, in front of, or along...
- Snowfalls occur frequently and increase each year without fully melting from mountain glaciers. Two elements are needed to have this accumulation o...
- About 2.1% of all of Earth's water is frozen in glaciers.
5 days ago · Water molecules composed of a lighter isotope of oxygen, 16 O, are evaporated more readily than molecules bearing a heavier isotope, 18 O. Glacial periods are characterized by high 18 O concentrations and represent a net transfer of water, especially with 16 O, from the oceans to the ice sheets.
- Stephen T. Jackson
2 days ago · Introduction. Precipitation and its various types are crucial variables with significant impacts on society, climate, and hydrological processes 1. Over the Andes regions, due to the current...
5 days ago · The Younger Dryas event (12,900 to 11,600 years ago) is the most intensely studied and best-understood example of abrupt climate change. The event took place during the last deglaciation, a period of global warming when the Earth system was in transition from a glacial mode to an interglacial one.
