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glacialist|ˈgleɪʃɪəlɪst|
[f. glacial a. + -ist.]
a. One who makes a special study of glacial phenomena.
b. One who explains certain geological phenomena as due to glacial action.
1854Fraser's Mag. XLIX. 249 Ice, a tolerably hard, brittle solid (notwithstanding the plasticity with which modern glacialists endow it). 1878Huxley Physiogr. 165 Nor is it only the effects of land-ice which the glacialist sees marked upon the rocks of Britain. 1889G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. 358 The glacialist sees indubitable evidences of a former vast expanse of water. |