Usage of "glacial period"

Portuguese

era glacial

Catalan

període glacial

Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface.

Russian

Portuguese

Catalan

Spanish

Interval of time within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.

glaciation

interglacial period

Related terms

geological period

ледниковая эпоха

Usage of glacial period in English

With reference to the glacial period he anticipated still more positive results. 
 Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence 

Some geologists state that the glacial period was sixty thousand years ago. 
 See America First 

A bit of the glacial period kept in a cave for us! 
 My Terminal Moraine / 1892 

Innumerable boulders, relics of the glacial period, encumbered the track. 
 Letters from High Latitudes / Being Some Account of a Voyage in ... 

If the glacial period were uniformity, what was catastrophe? 
 The Education of Henry Adams 

It is decadent, geologically speaking, and it suffered a good deal during the last glacial period. 
 Humanly Speaking 

The glacial period is coming back on Europe. 
 As We Go 

They were all destroyed during the glacial period. 
 Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions 

So conversely it will be with the northern hemisphere, while the southern passes through a glacial period. 
 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr... 

Hence in this glacial period the condition of the country was very different from what it is now. 
 English Villages 

During the last glacial period, Antarctic terrestrial and marine life was challenged by even more extreme environmental conditions. 
 Pubmed 

There is a theory held by many naturalists that the migrating instinct dates back to the glacial period. 
 The Bird Study Book 

Hollowed out during the glacial period. 
 Malvina of Brittany 

There came then a glacial period. 
 The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H... 

Were they still under the influence of the glacial period and attempting to imitate the wild doings of Nature? 
 Humanly Speaking 

These gravel-beds belong in fact to the glacial period, and in after years I found in them broken arctic shells. 
 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 