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Glaciation   /glˌeɪʃiˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Glaciation

noun
1.
The condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action.
2.
The process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice.



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"Glaciation" Quotes from Famous Books



... valley; it did not travel beyond the gigantic hall it had helped to excavate. The valley of the Merced from the mouth of Yosemite downward is an open valley strewn with huge angular granite rocks and shows no signs of glaciation whatever. The reason of this abruptness is quite beyond my ken. It is to me a plausible theory that when the granite that forms the Sierra was lifted or squeezed up by the shrinking of the earth, large fissures and crevasses may have occurred, and that Yosemite and kindred ...
— Time and Change • John Burroughs


Words linked to "Glaciation" :   geological process, glacial, geologic process, environmental condition, glaciate


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