Glaciation

Quick meaning: Glaciation is a noun meaning The process of covering with a glacier, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena; an ice age.

Meaning

The process of covering with a glacier, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena; an ice age.

More Meanings

1. A particular instance of glacier formation.
2. The act of freezing.

Example Sentences

This simulation aims at describing the hydrological conditions at a Swedish deep repository of nuclear waste during a glaciation.

For cave glaciation to occur it is necessary that the air temperature outside the caves be negative either for all or part of a year; such conditions exist in many regions of the world.

Deposits of the Caribou Hills glaciation only locally retain a distinct hummocky morainal form, with filled kettle depressions and subdued knobs. Along the mountain fronts the marginal deposits of this glaciation reach an average altitude of slightly more than 3,000 feet.

Deposits from the glaciation are sparse, but glacial surfaces at 4150–4300 m in the Hunza area, above 2600 m in the Gilgit region, above 3200 m in the Haramosh region, above 4000 m on Deosai, and at 3200–3500 m in the Shigar valley area provide much evidence for this glaciation.

Word Forms

• glaciations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glacier, ice, glacis, glairin, glazing, glyptogenesis.

Related Dictionary Tools