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Definition of Glaciating
1. glaciate [v] - See also: glaciate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glaciating
Literary usage of Glaciating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Handbook of Physical Geology by Alfred John Jukes-Browne (1892)
"Along the shores of the Polar basin this process of glaciating was seen in progress
by one of us; and he records in his ' Journal' that at the south end of ..."
2. The Student's Handbook of Physical Geology by Alfred John Jukes-Browne (1892)
"Along the shores of the Polar basin this process of glaciating was seen in progress
by one of us; and he records in his ' Journal' that at the south end of ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... as compared with the sea, as a land-destroying and land- sculpturing agent ;
and of land ice as compared with floating ice as a glaciating agent. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... as compared with the sea, as a land-destroying and land- :sculpturing agent;
and of land ice as compared with floating ice as a glaciating agent. ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1877)
"... which evinces that the glaciating agent had sufficient erosive power to sweep
away all traces of the zone of partially decomposed, semi-rock-like ..."
6. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"... regardless of all but the greatest inequalities—filling the valleys, sweeping
over the mountain-tops, and glaciating the whole surface in its course. ..."
7. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"It will be noticed that these opposing agencies came into effect only after the
glaciating agencies had done such part of their work as brought these ..."
8. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"It is explained by the advocates of the hypothesis of elevation that the glaciating
effects must have lagged behind the elevation itself, ..."
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