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US
/ˈɡɫeɪsiˌeɪt, ˈɡɫeɪʃiˌeɪt/
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VERB
- become frozen and covered with glaciers
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cover with ice or snow or a glacier
the entire area was glaciated
How To Use glaciate In A Sentence
- Eurasia was not extensively glaciated during the last glacial advance, unlike North America.
- These changes may reflect increased rates of production and circulation of cold, well-oxygenated deep waters around the margins of the glaciated continent, as is the case in modern Antarctica.
- It consists of the lowland to submontane acidophilous oak and mixed oak forests, mixed oak-hornbeam forests, and lowland to submontane hemiboreal and nemoral pine forests on the North European glaciated plain. Central European mixed forests
- The Mid-Elevation Uinta Mountains ecoregion is characterized by forested, glaciated mountains with extensive morainal deposits. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
- The two maps are genetically related, but very different, in some ways loosely comparable to the ‘Solid’ and ‘Drift’ geological maps of a heavily glaciated area.
- The glacier foreland is 2 km long with a chronosequence of developmental stages from recently deglaciated terrain to sites which have been ice-free for 145 years at the terminal moraine dated 1858.
- This is an area of North American that has been periodically glaciated during the Pleistocene.
- Its lower crestal elevations, Alfisol soils, limestone bedrock, and sinkholes distinguish it from Ecoregion 70d; its ruggedness, lack of fragipans, and, often, natural vegetation differentiate it from the glaciated plains of Ecoregion 55d. Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)
- Pennsylvania encompasses 11.7 million hectares, with two glaciated sections in the northwest and northeastern corners of the state.
- Ecoregion 70 is a mostly unglaciated, dissected plateau with 200 to 750 feet (61-229 m) of local relief and crestal elevations of less than 2,000 feet (610 m). Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)