Crossword-Solution: SUPERGLACIAL
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
PLOLAW
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Sentences with SUPERGLACIAL (5)
Such deposits as were made by superglacial streams during the advance of the ice must likewise have been delivered on the land surface, but would have been subsequently destroyed or buried, becoming in the latter case, submorainic.
This would be likely to be the fate of all such superglacial gravels as reached the edge of the ice up to the time of its maximum advance.
There is no conflict of opinion with regard to glacial aggradation and the distribution of superglacial, englacial and subglacial material, which during the active existence of a glacier is finally distributed by glacial streams that produce very considerable alluviation.
When the prominence reaches the surface, blocks dislodged from it are borne away on the surface of the glacier, and constitute superglacial drift.
Not a few glacialists, however, advocate in somewhat differing forms and phases the doctrine that basal material is carried upward into the body of the glacier and at length reaches the surface, and that at the extremity of the ice this is commingled with any erratics that may be englacial or superglacial by original derivation.