Glaciologist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A scientist who studies glaciers.

    "To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres."

Example

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"To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres."

Etymology

From glaciology + -ist.

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