glacial period
any period of time during which a large part of the earth's surface was covered with ice, due to the advance of glaciers, as in the late Carboniferous period, and during most of the Pleistocene; glaciation
(often capitals) the Pleistocene epoch
- Brit equivalent: glacial epoch, ice age
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How to use glacial period in a sentence
They were exterminated by a glacial period not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five years in duration.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceThe fossils of the times between the glacial period and the Neolithic period indicate variations of climatic conditions.
The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology | J. E. MarrGreenland and the Arctic regions hold all that remains of the glacial period in North America.
See, I will stretch my hand Between it and the sun; the passing shadow Gives its poor dwellers a glacial period.
Songs from Vagabondia | Bliss Carman and Richard HoveyTherefore an inter-glacial period is indicated as having preceded the Mousterian age.
Prehistoric Man | W. L. H. Duckworth
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