Definition of Glacial epoch

1. Noun. Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface. "The most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene"

Exact synonyms: Glacial Period, Ice Age
Generic synonyms: Geological Period, Period
Group relationships: Prehistoric Culture, Prehistory

2. Noun. From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution.
Exact synonyms: Pleistocene, Pleistocene Epoch
Group relationships: Age Of Man, Quaternary, Quaternary Period
Generic synonyms: Epoch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glacial Epoch

Gita
Gitmo
Giudecca
Giulio Natta
Giuseppe Balsamo
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto
Giuseppe Verdi
Giza
Gjellerup
Gjirokastër
Gk.
Gla
Glacial
Glacial epoch (current term)
Glades
Gladstone
Gladstone bag
Gladstone bags
Gladstonian
Gladys
Gladys Smith
Glag.
Glagolitic
Glagolitic alphabet
Glamorgan
Glamorgan sausage
Glamorganshire
Glanvillian

Literary usage of Glacial epoch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Post-Glacial epoch < The Littorina time »oak-time. {Including the upper boulder clay, " younger Baltic moraine " with the Yoldia or Dryas phase in the ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1891)
"DID GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES CAUSE THE Glacial epoch? TO complain of the climate is an Englishman's birthright. It must, however, be remembered that Great ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"The Saxonian or second glacial epoch; 4. ... or sixth glacial epoch. The earliest application of such geographic names to the successive stages and ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"stage, that is, the second glacial epoch, after which the cold stage diminished ... I. Scanian=First Glacial epoch. The complex series subsequent to the ..."

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