glacial

In a sentence

Six example sentences with glacial, each labelled with its topic.

• The lake sits in a bowl of glacial rubble, and its milky green color comes from rock ground to powder.

  Environment

• Cores drilled through glacial ice preserve air bubbles that record what the atmosphere held eight hundred thousand years ago.

  Science

• The valley's flat floor and steep walls are glacial, carved when a river of ice filled it to the ridgeline.

  Travel

• Her glacial series was shot at dawn, when the blue inside the ice is deepest and every crevasse holds a long shadow.

  Photography

• Medieval villagers recorded glacial advances in parish books, noting which pastures the ice had swallowed in each decade.

  History

• The house stands on glacial till, a mix of clay and boulders that forced the foundation crew to hire a second excavator.

  Architecture

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