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Glacial epoch

noun

Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface. Synonyms: glacial period, ice age.

From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution. Synonyms: Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch.

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... observed in the Amazonian Valley, to connect them with facts of a like character on the continent of North America, and to show how remarkably they correspond with facts accomplished during the same period in other parts of the world. While the glacial epoch itself has been very extensively studied in the last half-century, little attention has been paid to the results connected with the breaking up of the geological winter and the final disappearance of the ice. I believe that the true explanation of the presence of a large part of the superficial ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various

... a late geological period, the Pliocene, just before the glacial epoch, and therefore could have no connection with the carboniferous ...

— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne

... the bridge at the close of the Glacial Epoch left the Atlantic abyss effectually dividing the two hemispheres. Its islands, few and far between, were helpless to maintain intercourse between the opposite shores; this is proven by the fact that all of them from Greenland to Tristan ...

— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple

Words linked to "Glacial epoch" : Age of Man, prehistory, quaternary, epoch, prehistoric culture, Quaternary period, ice age, period, Pleistocene, glacial period, geological period, Pleistocene epoch