glacial striation

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One of several, long, straight, parallel lines or grooves in a bedrock surface, formed by boulders, gravel, and pebbles embedded in a glacier that has passed over the surface.

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Words nearby glacial striation

glacial epoch, glacialist, glacial meal, glacial milk, glacial period, glacial striation, glacial valley, glaciate, glacier, Glacier Bay, glacier cream

How to use glacial striation in a sentence

Many thousands of years ago, glacial floods swept through the area and carved out the sloping sides of the current grounds.
Brooklyn’s Gangster Graveyard|Nina Strochlic|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Americans will never drive a small car,” said the man from GM with glacial confidence.
Nationalism on Four Wheels|Clive Irving|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Folks are taking cold showers already, and the weather soon will be glacial.
In Ukraine, Winter Is Coming|Anna Nemtsova|September 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
My partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise.
Our Trip to The Climate War's Ground Zero|Darren Aronofsky|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

For a church that moves at a glacial pace, the murmurings of Bishops like Tobin are lightning fast and boldly subversive.
A Coming American Schism Over Pope Francis?|Candida Moss|September 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
But scorn is far more volcanic than glacial and a poor barrier between sex and judgment.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Let dry, apply a cover-glass, and run glacial acetic acid underneath it.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Still water runs deep, they say; and a glacial cap may conceal subterranean fires.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Further study will reveal the fact that the difference is due to the lack of oxidation in the case of the glacial detritus.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler