aqueoglacial
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]aqueoglacial (not comparable)
- (geology) Deposited by and in water at a time contemporary with the presence of glacial ice in the region.
- Synonym: glacioaqueous
- Deposits of aqueoglacial sediments compose a significant portion of the landscape.
- 1987, Carl Seyfert, editor, The Encyclopedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics[1], Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc., page 312:
- The general sequence starts with a basal, characteristic formation of tillite and associated aqueoglacial sediments designating a glacial episode of supercontinental dimensions and remarkable uniformity.