Word: glacial
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...eyes could see in the clear winter air, the Alps of the Bernese Oberland stood in their snow-capped ranks, 12,000-foot peaks of glacial ice and stone...
Waterton Lakes for the bracing air, spectacular glacial lakes and year-round skiing in the perpetual snows...
...else. Discovered by Prospector Fred W. Chubb (who noticed its telltale circular shape in an air photo), it was briefly explored by Geologist Meen in the summer of 1950 (TIME, Aug. 14, 1950) with inconclusive results. He decided that it had not been caused by a volcanic explosion or glacial action; but there was no positive proof that it had been caused by a meteor...
Anyone expecting a crime of passion at this point reckons without the glacial restraint of modern British novelists. Author William Sansom muzzles the tiger in the blood in order to muster a conversational mouse in the drawing room. In The Face of Innocence, the crisp, angled light of his prose gives the mouse an exaggerated shadow. So does his main theme: that things are rarely what they seem...
Below these layers they went through a large rockfall to hit glacial gravel of the Pleistocene. After the discovery of a rare hand ax, tension in the deep hole grew as thick as the close air below the cave floor. Then, in the sputtering light of a Coleman lamp, the Iranian workmen disinterred the skeletons of the three prehistoric men who had met sudden death there some 75,000 years...