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Ice age   /aɪs eɪdʒ/   Listen
Ice age

noun
1.
Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface.  Synonyms: glacial epoch, glacial period.






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"Ice age" Quotes from Famous Books



... or of other alterations in the atmosphere, while others have gone back to the idea of geographical changes. That considerable oscillations of the relative levels of land and sea took place during the Ice Age has been now clearly established, and the general result of the investigations favours Belt's opinion that the land during part of that period stood much higher than now over the northern regions of Europe and North America. It would, however, lead us too far away from the present ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt



Words linked to "Ice age" :   prehistoric culture, prehistory, geological period, period, glacial epoch



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