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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
              Synonyms
              Examples for "Pleistocene"
              Examples for "Pleistocene"
              1
              Thus, multicopy and single-copy genes can be analyzed from Pleistocene faunal remains.
              Pubmed
              2
              It was the zenith of the Late Pleistocene of the Quaternary Glaciation.
              Devourer
              3
              It's been shrunk a little since the Pleistocene epoch, but not much.
              The Guardian
              4
              The animal world in turn was winnowed by the Pleistocene episode.
              The Story of Evolution
              5
              This collection contains specimens from important and unique local Mesozoic and Pleistocene deposits.
              The Guardian
              1
              It's been shrunk a little since the Pleistocene epoch, but not much.
              The Guardian
              2
              In 1994, two independent groups extracted DNA from several Pleistocene epoch mammoths and noted differences among individual specimens.
              Pubmed
              3
              We designate this hominin population 'Denisovans' and suggest that it may have been widespread in Asia during the Late Pleistocene epoch.
              Pubmed
              4
              Admit that the banded ant-eater, at least, existed before the pleistocene epoch, and everything can be settled.
              Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
              5
              And they belong to the Pleistocene Epoch.
              The Sorceress
              Usage of glacial epoch in inglês
              1
              That fellow must have lived just after the last glacial epoch.
              Boy Scouts in Mexico; Or, On Guard with Uncle Sam
              2
              Then follows the traditional account of some great cataclysm of the last glacial epoch.
              The Woman's Bible
              3
              These three invaded us after the glacial epoch; and our general flora is their result.
              Scientific Essays and Lectures
              4
              Then came the long winter of the glacial epoch-perhapsof a succession of glacial epochs.
              A History of Science — Volume 3
              5
              The Paleolithic Age was apparently terminated in Europe by the cold of the last glacial epoch.
              The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
              6
              It is probable that the last great ice-cap of the glacial epoch nowhere reached half way to the equator.
              Life: Its True Genesis
              7
              Then he had entered gaily the door of the glacial epoch, and had surveyed a universe of unities and uniformities.
              The Education of Henry Adams
              8
              Suppose, for example, a return of the glacial epoch and a spread of polar climatal conditions over the whole globe.
              Lectures and Essays
              9
              He was ignorant enough to think that the glacial epoch looked like a chasm between him and a uniformitarian world.
              The Education of Henry Adams
              10
              Science teaches that man existed during the glacial epoch, which was at least fifty thousand years before the Christian era.
              God and My Neighbour
              11
              Was its bed, sea or dry land, or under an ice sheet, during the long ages of the glacial epoch?
              Scientific Essays and Lectures
              12
              To be sure, several skulls found in America have been supposed to belong to a time before the last glacial epoch.
              The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
              13
              Less than a decade after his death his successor in the chair of geology at Harvard wrote that the "so-called glacial epoch .
              A short history of nearly everything
              14
              The two succeeding stages mark the greatest snowfall of the Glacial epoch.
              The Elements of Geology
              15
              It certainly was before the Pharaohs, and perhaps before the Glacial Epoch.
              Woman as Decoration
              16
              The answer is, they were stranded there at the end of the Glacial epoch.
              Science in Arcady
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