Relating to or formed by the interaction of glaciers and the ocean, especially where glacial ice meets seawater.
From glacial plus marine (from Latin marinus, of the sea). This geological term describes specific environments where ice sheets reach coastlines.
Glaciomarine deposits are how scientists figured out that glaciers used to cover places like New York City—finding ocean sediments with ice-dropped boulders tells the glacial story!
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