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- noun Plural form of
glacialist .
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Examples
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Before running amuk with stuff that is at such a casual level of sophistication, might be useful to hear the more experienced glacialists and what they make of vegetation finds.
A New Preprint by Wunsch on Abrupt Climate Change « Climate Audit 2005
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Water in liquid state has often produced analogous effects, and it has often been the error of the glacialists to confound the one with the other.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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I can therefore only wonder that other glacialists have given so little weight to this fact.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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No doubt, all the facts point that way; but it now becomes a matter of philosophical interest to determine in what direction it acts most powerfully, and upon this point glacialists are by no means agreed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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Some glacialists even hold the view first suggested by Ramsey, of the British Geological Survey, that the great glacial sheets scooped out the basins of many lakes, including the system that feeds the St. Lawrence.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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I have found traces of glaciers under this burning sky; a proof that our earth has undergone changes of temperature more considerable than even our most advanced glacialists have dared to suggest.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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We can sometimes trace their course by the excavation which they have made, but more commonly by the long ridges of stratified sand and gravel which were packed into the caverns excavated by these subglacial rivers, which are known to glacialists as _eskers_, or as serpent kames.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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I have found traces of glaciers under this burning sky; a proof that our earth has undergone changes of temperature more considerable than even our most advanced glacialists have dared to suggest.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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