Definition of subglacial
: of or relating to the bottom of a glacier or the area immediately underlying a glacier
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The cracks had formed as the ice skidded and juddered over a subglacial mountain.
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And the data hinted at the presence of a subglacial lake.
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The salt from rocks beneath the ice made the subglacial lakes four to five times saltier than seawater, or hypersaline.
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The likelihood that life exists in these hypersaline subglacial systems is high, Alison Murray of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute tells Halton.
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That’s not too salty to host microbial life, as a similarly briny subglacial lake in Antarctica proves.
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Access by skidoo is also possible, but subglacial floes makes it a more treacherous affair.
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First Known Use of subglacial
1820
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