单词 | ice-marginal |
释义 | > as lemmasice-marginal ice-marginal adj. (esp. of lakes and watercourses) formed or occurring along the ice front of a glacier or ice sheet. ΚΠ 1899 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 7 663 Along the ice margin, lakes were found, in places, formed by the usual ice marginal processes. 1968 R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. & Biol. iii. 37 Under the heading of proglacial landforms there are also the..lake-clay flats associated with the filling by sediment of ice-marginal lakes or seas. 2004 Nat. New Eng. Winter 32 These rocks represent the remnants of an ‘ice marginal delta’ which was deposited along the western margin of the Cape Cod Bay lobe of the last great ice sheet to cover the Northeast. < as lemmas |
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