Definition of Glaciated

1. Adjective. Covered with ice (as by a glacier) or affected by glacial action.

Similar to: Frozen

Definition of Glaciated

1. Verb. (past of glaciate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glaciated

1. glaciate [v] - See also: glaciate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glaciated

glacettes
glacial
glacial acetic acid
glacial boulder
glacial drift
glacial erratic
glacial erratics
glacial period
glacial phosphoric acid
glacial polish
glacialist
glacialists
glacially
glacials
glaciate
glaciated (current term)
glaciates
glaciating
glaciation
glaciations
glacier
glacier lily
glaciered
glacierlike
glaciers
glacimarine
glacioeustasy
glacioeustatic
glaciolacustrine

Literary usage of Glaciated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"Islets lying off the coast glaciated from the mainland— Ice rilled up all the ... That part of a glaciated rock which faces the direction from which the ice ..."

2. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"The unweathered condition of the soil minerals throughout the most recently glaciated area insures prolonged fertility of the soil. ..."

3. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"It will now be profitable to sum up in parallel columns the contrasted peculiarities of the glaciated and the unglaciated regions. ..."

4. The Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia by Geographical Society of Philadelphia (1917)
"The proportion of the total unimproved farm lands of the state found in the non-glaciated section was in 1850, per cent.; 1860, 29.7 per cent.; 1870, ..."

5. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"Mature glaciated Valleys. — It is evident that valleys which were formerly occupied by ... Even maturely glaciated valleys may not have graded beds, since, ..."

6. The Mississippi Valley Between Savanna and Davenport by Joel Ernest Carman (1909)
"On the whole the topography of the glaciated area is much less rugged than that of the unglaciated area. The relief also is less than in the unglaciated ..."

7. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"glaciated rock surfaces.—Another distinctive mark which a glacier leaves behind ... Other distinctive features of a glaciated area are the rounded bosses of ..."

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