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Definition of Subglacial
1. a. Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier; as, subglacial streams.
Definition of Subglacial
1. Adjective. Formed, or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subglacial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subglacial
Literary usage of Subglacial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Delavan Lobe of the Lake Michigan Glacier of the Wisconsin Stage of by William Clinton Alden (1904)
"ENGLACIAL AND subglacial DRIFT. On the final melting of a glacier the englacial and
... with the upper part of the subglacial drift or upon its surface. ..."
2. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1902)
"DEPOSITS MADE BY subglacial STREAMS. Before their issuance from ... Their activity
was doubtless sometimes erosive; but where the subglacial streams found ..."
3. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"Interglacial and subglacial lakes—Crofthead interglacial beds- Climatic conditions
of Scotland during interglacial ages—Fragmentary nature of the evidence ..."
4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1902)
"subglacial Hypothesis. As formulated by Davis, t this explanation of eskers also
assumes a stagnant and decayed marginal zone of the ice- sheet. ..."
5. The Ice Age in North America and Its Bearings Upon the Antiquity of Man by George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham (1891)
"The subglacial stream entering the inlet just below the southwest corner of the
ice emerges from the ice about a mile farther up, on the north side of the ..."
6. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"... ice forming a moraine profonde, or ground-moraine — Special proofs of the
subglacial origin of till—Unequal distribution of this deposit explained. ..."
7. The Glacial Geology of New Jersey: By Rollin D. Salisbury, Assisted by Henry by Rollin D. Salisbury, Henry Barnard Kümmel, Charles Emerson Peet, George N. Knapp (1902)
"Before their issuance from beneath the ice, subglacial waters were not idle.
Their activity was doubtless sometimes erosive; but where the subglacial ..."
8. Characteristics of Existing Glaciers by William Herbert Hobbs (1911)
"... the trench does not appear, but the ice impinges forcibly upon the base of
the nunatak. En glacial and subglacial Drainage of the Inland-ice. ..."
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