释义 |
glacieriˈzation [f. glacier + -ize + -ation.] 1. Conversion into glacier. nonce-wd.
1850Westm. Rev. Oct. 267 A general glacierization (vergletscherung) of the whole island is a thing not to be thought of. 2. The covering of land by an ice-sheet; the state of being so covered.
1922Wright & Priestley Glaciology v. 134 ‘Glacierisation’—the inundation of land by ice. 1954W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. vi. 149 Pleistocene glacierization caused many of the valleys beyond the margins of the ice sheets..to receive quantities of glacial outwash beyond the transporting capacities of the streams in them. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 472/2 The continuity of the present ice age is suggested by the continued ice coverage (glacierization) of Antarctica. |