glacial period

British  

noun

1. any period of time during which a large part of the earth's surface was covered with ice, due to the advance of glaciers, as in the late Carboniferous period, and during most of the Pleistocene; glaciation

2. (often capitals) the Pleistocene epoch

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Example Sentences

Yet the creature had survived other instances of warming between glacial periods—even some as warm as today—Fordham says.

From Science Magazine

These Dansgaard-Oeschger events are well documented fort the last glacial period, but the climate records from Greenland only cover the last 120,000 years.

From Science Daily

We call these periods ice ages or glacial periods.

From Science Daily

It’s that high because past research was based on wrong calculations of how fast the world warmed between glacial periods, Hansen said.

From Seattle Times

"This is what we think happened during the last glacial period. But we don't know how strongly -- or how fast -- these currents will respond to ocean warming."

From Science Daily