glacial period

noun

1. 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
2. often capitals the Pleistocene epoch

Example Sentences

They were exterminated by a glacial period not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five years in duration.

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The fossils of the times between the Glacial period and the Neolithic period indicate variations of climatic conditions.

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Greenland and the Arctic regions hold all that remains of the glacial period in North America.

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See, I will stretch my hand Between it and the sun; the passing shadow Gives its poor dwellers a glacial period.

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Therefore an inter-glacial period is indicated as having preceded the Mousterian age.

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