What Does Glaciologists Mean?

: any of the branches of science dealing with snow or ice accumulation, glaciation, or glacial epochs.

What do glaciologists do?

Glaciology is the study of snow and ice and their physical properties. More specifically, glaciologists analyze the formation, movement, and effects of the different kinds of glaciers, for example, alpine and arctic glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and ice shelves.

What does glacial mean in a sentence?

1 : suggestive of ice: such as. a : extremely cold : frigid a glacial wind. b : devoid of warmth and cordiality a glacial handshake. c : coldly imperturbable maintained a glacial calm.