Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Formed or deposited beneath a glacier.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated or occurring beneath or under a glacier: as, a subglacial stream.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Formed, or occurring beneath a
glacier or other body ofice
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Examples
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Scientists have since established the existence of about 280 "subglacial" lakes, most located below the East Antarctic ice sheet.
R&D Mag - News 2009
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According to TIME and the paper's abstract, the team created models based on the formation of similar terrain on Earth -- subglacial volcanos and ice shelves -- to determine how the chaos terrain on Europa could have formed.
Europa Water: Scientists Find Evidence Of Lakes On Jupiter's Moon (PHOTOS, VIDEO) 2011
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While Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica, there are hundreds of others.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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While Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica, there are hundreds of others.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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“A contemporary microbially maintained subglacial ferrous ‘ocean.’”
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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“A contemporary microbially maintained subglacial ferrous ‘ocean.’”
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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The AGAP (Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province) project will establish two camps from where the team will map the subglacial range using surface and airborne instruments.
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Russian and American researchers, including Christner, have identified signs of life almost three miles below the surface in ice that originates from liquid Lake Vostok, the largest of the recently discovered subglacial lakes on the continent.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Russian and American researchers, including Christner, have identified signs of life almost three miles below the surface in ice that originates from liquid Lake Vostok, the largest of the recently discovered subglacial lakes on the continent.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Using radar and gravity sensors, the experts made the first detailed maps of the Gamburtsev subglacial mountains, originally detected by Russian scientists 50 years ago at the heart of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
Archive 2009-02-22 Bill Crider 2009
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