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proglacial, a. Geomorphol.|prəʊˈgleɪsɪal, -ʃəl|
[f. pro-2 2 + glacial a.]
Situated or occurring just beyond the edge of an ice-sheet or glacier.
1937Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xxii. 393 The term ‘extra-morainic’ has been proposed to cover all such lakes, but they are evidently not literally extra-morainic in every case, and the term ‘pro-glacial’ is preferable. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 89 During the early stages of deglaciation, proglacial lakes collected between the Cary Moraine and the receding ice. 1970R. J. Small Study of Landforms xi. 395 His reconstruction of pro-glacial drainage conditions. Ibid., The waters of the lakes escaped, either into adjacent lakes or away from the pro-glacial zone altogether. 1972R. J. Price Glacial & Fluvioglacial Landforms (1973) vii. 185 As the glacier front moves down-valley the former pro-glacial fluvioglacial deposits are overridden by the ice. |