ice age
see also: Ice Age
Noun
Ice Age
Noun
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see also: Ice Age
Noun
ice age (plural ice ages)
- (scientific) A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence of major polar ice sheets that reach the ocean and calve icebergs.
- The earth is currently in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, an ice age that began 33.9 million years ago with the Antarctic Ice Cap.
- (colloquial) Any of several glacial periods (within a scientific ice age) marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth (interglacial).
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 377:
- The cause of ice ages, Köppen decided, is to be found in cool summers, not brutal winters.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA 2003, p. 377:
- French: âge de glace
- German: Eiszeitalter
- French: période glaciaire, glaciation, englaciation
- German: Eiszeit
- Italian: era glaciale
- Portuguese: era do gelo, era glacial, idade do gelo, período glacial
- Russian: леднико́вый пери́од
Ice Age
Noun
ice age (plural ice ages)
- Alternative letter-case form of ice age
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