Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Borne or conveyed by ice: especially applied to a boulder which has been carried and deposited by ice during the glacial period.
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Examples
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The complex dynamics of bluff erosion and ice-borne sediment transport will become even more difficult to forecast with sea-level rise and a more erratic storm climate.
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On the sea coast a sunken forest existed, while the shore was covered with granite boulders of many sizes and shapes, and large numbers of similar stones were ploughed up in the fields, all apparently ice-borne, and having been carried mostly from Criffel on the Scottish coast, and the following legend was told here to explain their presence on the
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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Professor Judd is that they are ice-borne boulders accidentally deposited on the Plain during the southward drift of the great ice cap.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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{201} Beside a pond just outside the churchyard there is a very large ice-borne boulder, measuring about 4½ feet in length, 4 feet in width, and 1½ feet in thickness.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Have not our latter days beheld, with awe, the ice-borne Muscovite [22] ride the fierce billows of the Polar Sea?
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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Looking to America; in the northern half, ice-borne fragments of rock have been observed on the eastern side of the continent, as far south as latitude 36°37°, and on the shores of the Pacific, where the climate is now so different, as far south as lat.
XII. Geographical Distribution. Alternate Glacial Periods in the North and South 1909
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In the Azores, from the large number of plants common to Europe, in comparison with the species on the other islands of the Atlantic, which stand nearer to the mainland, and (as remarked by Mr.H. C. Watson) from their somewhat northern character in comparison with the latitude, I suspected that these islands had been partly stocked by ice-borne seeds, during the Glacial epoch.
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And next, stripping from off the landscape its sands and gravels, we see its underlying boulder-clays, dingy and gray, and here presenting their vast ice-borne stones, and there its iceberg pavements.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885
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In the Azores, from the large number of the species of plants common to Europe, in comparison with the plants of other oceanic islands nearer to the mainland, and (as remarked by Mr H.C. Watson) from the somewhat northern character of the flora in comparison with the latitude, I suspected that these islands had been partly stocked by ice-borne seeds, during the Glacial epoch.
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Looking to America; in the northern half, ice-borne fragments of rock have been observed on the eastern side as far south as lat. 36\@-37\@, and on the shores of the pacific, where the climate is now so different, as far south as lat. 46\@; erratic boulders have, also, been noticed on the Rocky Mountains.
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