1962 New Scientist 2 Aug. 243/1 Given a few decades or millenia of warmer summers, and the glaciers melt; the hydrologic balance swings to the positive side and the ocean level rises. This is the phenomenon of ‘glacio⁓eustasy’.
1963 D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation vi. 152The glacio-eustatic retreat of the seas at the time of the first glaciation.
1935 H. Baulig Changing Sea Level 4This kind of phenomena, for which the name glacio-eustatism would seem appropriate.
1954 Glacio-eustatism . [ see eustatic a.]
1903 Amer. Geol. May 285The glacio-fluvial deposits of the Wisconsin epoch.
1935 Discovery Mar. 78/1 Glacial and glacio-fluvial streams.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 59/1Professor Chamberlin and other American geologists have recognized the following stages in the glaciation of North America:.. The Glacio-lacustrine substage.
1963 D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation vii. 162The attribution of ancient deposits of similar type to the same cause, thus identifying them as glacio-lacustrine in origin.
glacio-
combining form
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from glacier
1. : glacier
< glaciology >
2. : glacial and
< glaciomarine >
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< glaciology >
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< glaciomarine >
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Prefix
- Pertaining to glacial ice.