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subglacial

/suhb-gley-shuhl/US // sʌbˈgleɪ ʃəl //UK // (sʌbˈɡleɪsɪəl) //

冰川下层,冰川期以下,冰川下的,冰川以下

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : beneath a glacier: a subglacial stream.
    • : formerly beneath a glacier: a subglacial deposit.

Examples

  • The same may have been possible on Mars, even in these subglacial channels.

  • Now, in a 2020 paper with Trista Vick-Majors , we learned that these subglacial lakes, Lake Whillans in particular, are literally feeding the oceans.

  • There was one who followed the course of a subglacial stream, and thus made a veritable journey below the enormous vault of ice.

  • In this work the freezing and thawing of subglacial waters in any cracks and crevices of the rock no doubt play an important part.

  • A torrent ran there—no doubt the superfluous waters of the lake escaping by this subglacial stream.

  • The courses of well-defined subglacial streams were tunnels.

  • It is not to be inferred, however, that the subglacial streams were altogether independent of the sub-ice topography.