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glacio-

Glaciers.

Latin glacies, ice.

Glaciology is the study of the internal dynamics and effects of glaciers; glaciofluvial (Latin fluvius, river), less commonly fluvioglacial, refers to the action of streams that originate in glacial ice; glacioeustatic denotes changes in sea level (eustasy) caused by changes in the size of ice sheets (this also appears hyphenated).

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