periglacial.

Relating to cold-region processes, especially freezing and thawing, outside direct glacial erosion.

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• periglacial landscape
• periglacial process

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A periglacial landscape spread beyond the retreating ice.

Periglacial processes broke the exposed rock into angular fragments.

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Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a seasonal, material, ecological, or geographic relation; comparison requires a measurable or descriptive basis. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.