glacial
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He has described the prehistoric-looking Dalmatian pelicans, which “have eyes of such tremulous glacial depths—the bluish-gray sclera like an ice sheet being cored by the black iris—that they appear to hold entire worlds inside them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Its glacial flatness doesn’t lend itself to crusades, or to impressive scenes like a man on horseback silhouetted against the sunset.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
In the spring, the icefall doctors had finally managed to open the Khumbu Icefall section, after a massive overhanging glacial chunk, called a serac, blocked the path for much of the early climbing season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
This collapse coincided with a period of major environmental disruption during the most recent glacial period of the late Pleistocene age.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
I would go to Alaska, ski inland from the sea across thirty miles of glacial ice, and ascend this mighty nordwand.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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