glacioaqueous en · ADJ
Etymology
From glacio- + aqueous.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to, or formed by, both ice and water.
Some, like Hitchcock, whose studies in Massachusetts convinced him that ice played a role, thought it more appropriate to talk of a glacioaqueous theory to reflect combined forces of water and ice.
December 20, 2014, Patsy Gernster, Henry Darwin Rogers, 1808–1866: American Geologist, University of Alabama Press, page 113:The glacioaqueous interactions of water and ice can have a significant effect on the local geology