Glaciology
/ˌɡleɪsɪˈɒlədʒi/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 The study of ice and its effect on the landscape, especially the study of glaciers. countable, uncountable
"From this high position in latitude, explorations (furthered for a time by the effective aid of their Esquimaux dogs) were perseveringly made, and rewarded by results of the most interesting nature in geography, hydrography, and glaciology."
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More examples"Christian Huggel, a professor at the University of Zurich in Switzerland who specializes in glaciology and geomorphodynamics (the study of changing forms of geologic surfaces), said thousands of cubic meters of water moving down a mountain "is really quite destructive and it can happen suddenly.""
Etymology
From Latin glaciēs (“ice”) + -ology (“study of a particular subject”).