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ice-foot en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ice foot.
   alt of ice foot
   • Marsh et al. (1973) and Bryan & Marcus (1973) report the occurrence of sand and pebble-sized sediments in the ice-foots of Lake Superior, and Fahnestock et al. (1973, Figure 6) photographed a 20 kg block of shale that was deposited on the flank of an ice-cone by wave activity. 1973, Michigan Academician - Volume 6, page 52:
   • Along that part of the coast of Greenland where the ice-foot is shed at the end of every summer, the quantities of rock debris thus borne seawards must be something prodigious. 1882, James Geikie, The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man, page 64:
   • On the evening of July 5, therefore, we drove to Noresund; but here we were met by absolutely ice-free water, and had to take to the ice-foot in order to reach the fast ice inside the fjord. 2014, Otto Neumann Sverdrup, New Land, page 153:

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