ice-dammed

English

Etymology

From ice dam +‎ -ed.

Adjective

ice-dammed (not comparable)

1. Obstructed or held back by ice.
   • 1877, Cambridge University Press (publisher), Geological Magazine, page 75:

     I will merely say that only one of two conclusions seems open to us; either the terraces and water-marks are old sea-margins, or else they are the margins of huge ice-dammed lakes.

   • 1932, International News Company (publisher), The Illustrated London News - Volume 91, page 405:

     our base camp was pitched on the marginal moraine close to the eastern scarp of Kverfkjöll and overlooking a little ice-dammed lake.

   • 1973, Robert J. Price, Glacial and Fluvioglacial Landforms, page 128:

     So long as evidence for the existence of the ice-dammed lakes does not simply consist of the meltwater channels themselves, the interpretation of such meltwater channels as overflows cannot be disputed.

   • 2006, Chris Stringer, Homo Britannicus, The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain, page 65:

     At the height of the cold stage a massive front of ice sat over the Midlands and north London, and south of it were huge lakes filled by spring thaws and ice-dammed rivers, such as the Thames.