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View synonyms for glacial epoch
glacial epoch
[gley-shuhl ep-uhk, ee-pok]
noun
Also called ice age. Also called glacial period,. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
any one of the Permian, Carboniferous, Cambrian, or Precambrian glaciations.
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Origin of glacial epoch1
First recorded in 1840–50
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