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Meanings of Glacial epoch in inglês

português
era glacial
catalão
període glacial

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

        era glacial
        português
        pleistoceno
        catalão
        època glacial

        From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution.

              pleistoceno
              Usage of Glacial epoch in inglês
              1
              The two succeeding stages mark the greatest snowfall of the Glacial epoch.
              The Elements of Geology
              2
              The answer is, they were stranded there at the end of the Glacial epoch.
              Science in Arcady
              3
              The distribution of species in the Glacial epoch was far different from that of the present.
              The Elements of Geology
              4
              It is a bit of preglacial landscape, showing the condition of the entire region before the Glacial epoch.
              The Elements of Geology
              5
              I quite agree with what you say of almost certainty of Glacial epoch having destroyed the Spanish saxifrages, etc., in Ireland.
              More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
              6
              Did the ice fields of the Glacial epoch bear heavy surface moraines like the medial and lateral moraines of valley glaciers?
              The Elements of Geology
              7
              After writing last to you I began to think that the Malay Land might have existed through part of the Glacial epoch.
              More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
              8
              During the Miocene epoch the polar ice was certainly many feet thinner than it has been during, or since, the Glacial epoch.
              Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
              9
              The beaches which mark the successive heights of these glacial lakes are not parallel; hence the warping began before the Glacial epoch closed.
              The Elements of Geology
              10
              The great proboscidians of the Glacial epoch were about the size of modern elephants, and somewhat smaller than their ancestral species in the Pliocene.
              The Elements of Geology
              11
              In the driving southward of the vegetation by the Glacial epoch the Greenland flora would be "driven into the sea, that is, exterminated."
              More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
              12
              It certainly was before the Pharaohs, and perhaps before the Glacial Epoch.
              Woman as Decoration
              13
              That fellow must have lived just after the last glacial epoch.
              Boy Scouts in Mexico; Or, On Guard with Uncle Sam
              14
              Then follows the traditional account of some great cataclysm of the last glacial epoch.
              The Woman's Bible
              15
              These three invaded us after the glacial epoch; and our general flora is their result.
              Scientific Essays and Lectures
              16
              Then came the long winter of the glacial epoch-perhapsof a succession of glacial epochs.
              A History of Science — Volume 3
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