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91glacial phosphoric acid — metaphosphoric met a*phos*phor ic, a. [Pref. meta + phosphoric.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, {HPO3}, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called… …
92Glacial till plains (Ohio) — The Glacial till plains are in the Northwest of Ohio. This region is fertile and has gently rolling moraine hills created by the movement of glaciers. Glaciers created the Ohio River.till oMJIOPHF*)PNMJASPRUIFHN*ENMIKL …
93Glacial Lake Algonquin — The lake varied in size, but it was at the biggest size at the post glacial period and gradually shrunk to the current Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. At about 7,000 years ago, the lake was replaced by Lake Chippewa as the glaciers retreated and… …
94Glacial Lake Tight — Lake Tight, named for geologist William G. Tight, was a glacial lake located in what is present day Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, during the Ice Age.HistoryLake Tight s origins date to nearly 2 million years before the modern era. As the Ice …
95glacial relict — a relict isolated by events associated with one of the glacial periods when much of northern North America and Eurasia were ice covered and fishless …
96glacial drift — Geol. material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater. Also called drift. Cf. till4. * * * …
97glacial epoch — 1. Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets. 2. any one of the Permian, Carboniferous, Cambrian, or Precambrian glaciations. [1840 …
98glacial milk — waters of a glacial stream in which particles of light colored silt are suspended. * * * …
99glacial landform — a landform produced by glacial erosion or deposition …
100glacial trough — see glacial valley …
