glaciolacustrine

adjective

Of, or pertaining to lakes that are created or fed by glaciers.

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Meanings

adjectiveglaciolacustrine (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf, or pertaining to lakes that are created or fed by glaciers.

    Glaciotectonic deformation requires a glaciolacustrine environment, or a similar very water-saturated setting such as a fjord.

    2012, M. Huuse, J. Redfern, D. P. Le Heron, Glaciogenic Reservoirs and Hydrocarbon Systems, →ISBN, page 47

Origin

From glacio- + lacustrine.

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