adjective
- situated, formed, or occurring within a glacier or mass of glacial ice
Usage: technical; geology
Examples
- Englacial streams flow through channels inside the glacier.
- The researchers studied englacial debris to understand ice movement.
- Englacial lakes can form within the body of a glacier during summer melt.
- Englacial sediment is transported within the ice rather than on its surface.
- The englacial zone contains ice that has been compressed over many years.