Covered with glaciers or shaped by glacial activity; having large masses of permanent ice.
From 'glacier' (from French 'glacier,' from Latin 'glacies' meaning ice) plus the adjective suffix '-ed.' Used in geology and geography since the 19th century.
Glaciered valleys have a distinctive U-shape because glaciers grind like nature's sandpaper, while river valleys are V-shaped—ice and water write completely different signatures on the landscape.
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