glaciate
verb (used with object)
to cover with ice or glaciers.
glaciation
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a word derived from
glaciate.
Example Sentences
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This is a "unique community" of 20 rare and endangered arctic-alpine plants believed to have "survived continuously since shortly after the last glaciation", between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, a spokesman said.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
It started with a period of glaciation that must have been a chilly change from the greenhouse-like Oligocene, and ended with a prolonged period of glaciation, too.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
Yet efforts to explain what initiated these periods of global glaciation, which have come to be known as "Snowball Earth" events, have been inconclusive.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
Earth’s glaciation, they say, may have come from a global drop in carbon dioxide emissions, a result of fewer volcanoes expelling the gas into the atmosphere.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
According to the solar-cyclonic hypothesis, the Pleistocene glacial period was inaugurated at a time when certain terrestrial conditions tended to make the earth especially favorable for glaciation.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
