Meanings
- not comparableObstructed or held back by ice.
our base camp was pitched on the marginal moraine close to the eastern scarp of Kverfkjöll and overlooking a little ice-dammed lake.
1932, International News Company (publisher), The Illustrated London News - Volume 91, page 4053 more examples
I will merely say that only one of two conclusions seems open to us; either the terraces and water-marks are old sea-margins, or else they are the margins of huge ice-dammed lakes.
1877, Cambridge University Press (publisher), Geological Magazine, page 75So long as evidence for the existence of the ice-dammed lakes does not simply consist of the meltwater channels themselves, the interpretation of such meltwater channels as overflows cannot be disputed.
1973, Robert J. Price, Glacial and Fluvioglacial Landforms, page 128At the height of the cold stage a massive front of ice sat over the Midlands and north London, and south of it were huge lakes filled by spring thaws and ice-dammed rivers, such as the Thames.
2006, Chris Stringer, Homo Britannicus, The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain, page 65
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