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What (who) is glaciation - definition
INTERVAL OF TIME WITHIN AN ICE AGE THAT IS MARKED BY COLDER TEMPERATURES AND GLACIER ADVANCES
Glaciation; Glaciations; Glacial; Glacial Period; Glacial periods; Glacials; Glacial interval
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glaciation
(glaciations)
In geology, glaciation is the process by which the land is covered by glaciers. Glaciations are periods when this happens. (TECHNICAL)
N-VAR
Glaciation
·noun Act of freezing.
II. Glaciation ·noun That which is formed by freezing; ice.
III. Glaciation ·noun The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.
glaciation
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¦ noun Geology
1. the condition or result of being glaciated.
2. a glacial period.
Wikipedia
Glacial period
A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances. Interglacials, on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate between glacial periods. The Last Glacial Period ended about 15,000 years ago. The Holocene is the current interglacial. A time with no glaciers on Earth is considered a greenhouse climate state.
Examples of use of glaciation
1. Elsewhere, glaciation caused violent lurches in climate that turned fertile pastures into barren wastelands.
2. Seafloor evidence taken from around Antarctica testifies to this event, known as the Oligocene glaciation.
3. "Northern hemisphere glaciation is fully developed and that also affects the climate system." He said global warming and destruction of habitats could also change the patterns of the past.
4. "That five degrees centigrade is the equivalent of the change that happened since the end of the last glaciation 18,000 years ago to now," he told the economists as they munched on fortune cookies and orange wedges.
5. To a great extent, it is a remnant of the glaciation process the earth underwent 125,000 years ago, when its northern half was covered with ice layers kilometers deep.