"glacial polish" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2001, Bill Guyton, Glaciers of California",
          "text": "Tenaya Lake was at one time under as much as 2,460 feet of glacial ice that produced a pressure of about 74 tons per square foot and extensive glacial polish (fig. 18).",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, John Menzies, Modern and Past Glacial Environments: Revised Student Edition",
          "text": "Glacial polish on lee surfaces may reflect this sorting.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Hans Cloos, Conversation with the Earth",
          "text": "However, in Canada and Northern Europe—where they are known collectively as \"shields\"—the basement formations stretch out in the lowlands, smoothed by glacial polish.",
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        "The appearance of rock after having been worn smooth by a passing glacier."
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        "uncountable",
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  "word": "glacial polish"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "2001, Bill Guyton, Glaciers of California",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, John Menzies, Modern and Past Glacial Environments: Revised Student Edition",
          "text": "Glacial polish on lee surfaces may reflect this sorting.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Hans Cloos, Conversation with the Earth",
          "text": "However, in Canada and Northern Europe—where they are known collectively as \"shields\"—the basement formations stretch out in the lowlands, smoothed by glacial polish.",
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        "The appearance of rock after having been worn smooth by a passing glacier."
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