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View synonyms for glacial epoch
glacial epoch
[ gley-shuhl ep-uhkor, especially British, ee-pok ]
noun
- Also called glacial period, the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
- 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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Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.
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This chart represents the part marked Glacial Epoch in Fig. 24, with which it should be compared.
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Was its bed, sea or dry land, or under an ice sheet, during the long ages of the glacial epoch?
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The collapse of the bridge at the close of the Glacial Epoch left the Atlantic abyss effectually dividing the two hemispheres.
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Post-glacial Epoch, in which man lived cotemporaneously with the mammoth and reindeer (Cervus tarandus).
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