aqueoglacial en · ADJ
Etymology
From aqueous + glacial
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Deposited by and in water at a time contemporary with the presence of glacial ice in the region.
Deposits of aqueoglacial sediments compose a significant portion of the landscape.
The general sequence starts with a basal, characteristic formation of tillite and associated aqueoglacial sediments designating a glacial episode of supercontinental dimensions and remarkable uniformity.
1987, Carl Seyfert, editor, The Encyclopedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc., page 312: