Definition of Glaciations

1. Noun. (plural of glaciation) ¹

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Definition of Glaciations

1. glaciation [n] - See also: glaciation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glaciations

glacial drift
glacial erratic
glacial erratics
glacial period
glacial phosphoric acid
glacial polish
glacialist
glacialists
glacially
glacials
glaciate
glaciated
glaciates
glaciating
glaciation
glaciations (current term)
glacier
glacier lily
glaciered
glacierlike
glaciers
glacimarine
glacioeustasy
glacioeustatic
glaciolacustrine
glaciologic
glaciological
glaciologically
glaciologies

Literary usage of Glaciations

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

1. The Life of the Pleistocene Or Glacial Period: As Recorded in the Deposits by Frank Collins Baker (1920)
"V. PREVIOUS glaciations IN THE CHICAGO AREA It is believed that at least one interglacial interval, preceded by an extensive glaciation, is represented in ..."

2. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1894)
"Widely distributed glaciations during Paleozoic time have been shown, but the evidence adduced is such as to warrant the conclusion thatsuch glaciations ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"Such a decrease of its side will cause also changes in the amount, and especially in the distribution of precipitation, and the glaciations themselves will ..."

4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Milankovitch gives 000000 years lor the Pleistocene. Phases ot the Pleistocene:— (a) Early glaciations (probably 2), Gunz ^lactations of ..."

5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1894)
"3 The fluvio-glacial deposits or gravel-beds of the second and third glaciations, which in the North of Switzerland extend along the principal rivers to ..."

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