ice-scoured

[ ahys-skouuhrd, -skou-erd ]

adjective

, Physical Geography.

1. noting an area having surface features resulting from scouring by an advancing ice sheet during glaciation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice-scoured¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Above the tree line, a jagged wall of ice-scoured rock glowed creamy pink in the setting sun.

From Wall Street Journal

Heavily ice-scoured seafloors, like a graded construction site, can be biological deserts.

From Scientific American

Across the rubble-covered flats, up the dark canyon to Sheep Camp, past the over-hanging and ever-threatening glaciers to the Scales, and from the Scales up the steep pitches of ice-scoured rock where packers climbed with hands and feet, Old Tarwater camp-cooked and packed and sang. 

From Project Gutenberg

Over the ice-scoured rocks and above the timber-line, the trail ran around Crater Lake and gained the rocky defile that led toward Happy Camp and the first scrub-pines.

From Project Gutenberg

In its bed, among muddy pools of water and ice-scoured rocks, he wandered, picking up fat nugget-gold.

From Project Gutenberg