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englacial, a.|ɛnˈgleɪʃ(ɪ)əl| [f. en-1 + glacial a.] Embedded in or being within a glacier. So enˈglacially adv.
1891Amer. Geologist Dec. 376 The purpose of this paper is to call attention of glacialists to the means of discrimination of the portion of the drift which, at the time of final melting of the ice-sheet, was enclosed within the ice and therefore is called englacial drift by Pres. Chamberlin, and the portion which was subglacial, lying under the ice. 1896Jrnl. Geol. IV. 961 Superglacial and englacial streams might be supposed to make deposits in their channels. 1904Chamberlin & Salisbury Geol. (1905) I. 268 A surface load..buried by snow and ice..is englacial. 1925Odell in E. F. Norton Fight for Everest: 1924 315 The medial moraine from the north-east shoulder of Everest, carried englacially. 1933Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXI. 304 The greatest part of the englacial debris. 1935Nature 20 Apr. 605/2 The blanketing effect of the silt brought down by en-glacial and sub-glacial streams. |