Glaciology

Quick meaning: Glaciology is a noun meaning (geology) The study of ice and its effect on the landscape, especially the study of glaciers.

Meaning

(geology) The study of ice and its effect on the landscape, especially the study of glaciers.

Example Sentences

Until now, aerial photography had been used in glaciology only for mapping the glacier surface and the surface velocity field; other, much more expensive, methods have been used to determine the bed and mass balance.

From this high position in latitude, explorations (furthered for a time by the effective aid of their Esquimaux dogs) were perseveringly made, and rewarded by results of the most interesting nature in geography, hydrography, and glaciology.

This general approach offers the possibility of reconstructing past glaciologies for a situation where (1) the outline of the glacier can be reconstructed, (2) the ELA [equilibrium line altitude] can be determined, (3) the area under the ELA can be measured, and (4) there is some information on the winter balance and ablation gradient of the former glacier.

I was leafing through deep-core glaciology results from Greenland's mid-rift when the telephone rang. It droned on forever before it finally quit and I could concentrate again. The Greenland data confirmed all the other studies: the earth suffered ninety thousand years of ice-age weather, then ten thousand years of warm, in a loop that repeated over and over, as far back as there was ice to record it.

Word Forms

• glaciologies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glaciometeorology, glaciohydrology, astroglaciology, radioglaciology, glaciovolcanism, cryology.

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