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ice age

[ ahys eyj ]

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noun

Geology.

a geologic period during which ice thickly covers vast masses of land:
astronomical phenomena related to the widespread glaciation of ice ages.
Ice Age, the most recent of the earth’s many ice ages, occurring during the Pleistocene Epoch:
Our familiar continents were shaped quite differently before the Ice Age.

ice age

noun

another name for glacial period

ice age

Any of several cold periods during which glaciers covered much of the Earth.
Ice Age. The most recent glacial period, which occurred during the Pleistocene Epoch and ended about 10,000 years ago. During the Pleistocene Ice Age, great sheets of ice up to two miles thick covered most of Greenland, Canada, and the northern United States as well as northern Europe and Russia.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ice age¹

First recorded in 1870–75

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"Historically, this migration has been going on since the ice age," he said.

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Meanwhile experts have pointed to important biological differences between the wolf on the cover of Time and the dire wolf that roamed and hunted during the last ice age.

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Their research sheds new light on both the rapid expansion of humans throughout the Americas and the extinction of large ice age mammals.

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Their extinction coincided with the end of the last ice age, a time when the planet quickly warmed and glaciers retreated northward.

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Researchers believe they have found possible evidence that polar bears lived in Scotland during the last ice age.

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