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a. (context geomorphology English) Of or pertaining to the area around the edge of a glacier.
Usage examples of "periglacial".
The constant low pressure over the vast sheets of ice sucked moisture from the air, allowing little snow to fall in periglacial regions and creating a constant wind.
The woolly mammoths were well adapted to the harsh periglacial climate of their cold environment.
But more confusing were the changes in surface features wrought, in that frigid periglacial land, by permafrost.
They would surely turn him out, and in the freezing cold night of the periglacial steppes there was no place to go.
They lived year-round in the northern periglacial regions of the steppes, where the cold was deeper but dry, and snow was slight, feeding in winter on the coarse, dry standing hay.
Not a forest of the tall sturdy trees of warmer climates, these birches were stunted and dwarfed by the harsh periglacial conditions, yet they were not without beauty.
The few people who inhabited those periglacial steppes had little opportunity to meet anyone new, and the excitement of this chance encounter would fuel discussions and fill the stories of Falcon Camp for a long time to come.
The long, wet, green spring of the periglacial grassland, gave bison, and several other animals, a long season for growing, which resulted in their heroic proportions.
The woolly mammoths were well adapted to the harsh periglacial climate of their cold environment.