englacial, a.
(ɛnˈgleɪʃ(ɪ)əl)
[f. en-1 + glacial a.]
Embedded in or being within a glacier. So enˈglacially adv.
| 1891 Amer. Geologist Dec. 376 The purpose of this paper is to call attention of glacialists to the means of discrimination of the portion of the drift which, at the time of final melting of the ice-sheet, was enclosed within the ice and therefore is called englacial drift by Pres. Chamberlin, and the portion which was subglacial, lying under the ice. 1896 Jrnl. Geol. IV. 961 Superglacial and englacial streams might be supposed to make deposits in their channels. 1904 Chamberlin & Salisbury Geol. (1905) I. 268 A surface load..buried by snow and ice..is englacial. 1925 Odell in E. F. Norton Fight for Everest: 1924 315 The medial moraine from the north-east shoulder of Everest, carried englacially. 1933 Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXI. 304 The greatest part of the englacial debris. 1935 Nature 20 Apr. 605/2 The blanketing effect of the silt brought down by en-glacial and sub-glacial streams. |