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Definition of Glacial period

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"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glacial Period

Literary usage of Glacial period

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

1. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1882)
"... occasional means — Dispersal during the glacial period — Alternate Glacial periods in the North and South. IN considering the distribution of organic ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Similar conditions (the recession of a waterfall since the glacial period) may be studied on the Mississippi in Minnesota, and Winchell came to the ..."

3. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"CAUSE OF THE CLIMATIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES OF THE glacial period. Physical conditions of glacial period—General depression of snow-line—Inter- glacial ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"The cause of tho present subsidence of Greenland, as well as that in Britain during the glacial period, was ascribed vo the effect which an increased weight ..."

5. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"Three subdivisions or epochs, of the glacial period, are recognized: (1) the EARLY GLACIAL EPOCH, or that of the Advance of the Ice and its maximum ..."

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