subglacial
[suhb-gley-shuh l]
Origin of subglacial
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Superficial and subglacial melting greatly modify this result.
The Glaciers of the AlpsJohn Tyndall
There was one who followed the course of a subglacial stream, and thus made a veritable journey below the enormous vault of ice.
It is not to be inferred, however, that the subglacial streams were altogether independent of the sub-ice topography.
Such drift would tend to increase the body of marginal stratified drift from subglacial sources.
Where the subglacial streams did not follow subglacial valleys, they did not always find valleys when they issued from the ice.
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