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View synonyms for glacial epoch

glacial epoch

[ gley-shuhl ep-uhkor, especially British, ee-pok ]

noun

  1. Also called glacial period, the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
  2. any one of the Permian, Carboniferous, Cambrian, or Precambrian glaciations.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of glacial epoch1

First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences

Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.

This chart represents the part marked Glacial Epoch in Fig. 24, with which it should be compared.

Was its bed, sea or dry land, or under an ice sheet, during the long ages of the glacial epoch?

The collapse of the bridge at the close of the Glacial Epoch left the Atlantic abyss effectually dividing the two hemispheres.

Post-glacial Epoch, in which man lived cotemporaneously with the mammoth and reindeer (Cervus tarandus).

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