ice ages

1. Periods in the history of the Earth when large glaciers covered much of the surface of the continents .

Notes

The last ice age ended less than twenty thousand years ago.

Scientists believe that there will be more ice ages in the future, caused by tiny changes in the Earth's orbit and rotation.

Example Sentences

It apparently holds the story of two widely separated ice ages.

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I was contemporaneous with the lives precariously spent between the ebb and flood of the ice ages.

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The long ice-ages of the earth appear to have their sway, go, and return.

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Some, indeed, speak of a series of Ice-Ages, but we need not discuss the verbal question.

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Upheaval is the one constant and clearly recognisable feature associated with, or preceding, ice-ages.

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