💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ice age"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| glacial epochnoun | from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution |
| glacial periodnoun | An interval of time within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances. |
| little ice agenoun | A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850. |
| recessionnoun | (economics) A period of reduced economic activity. |
| glacialnoun | A glacial period (colloquially known as an ice age). |
| climate changenoun | Rapid, large-scale, and long-term change in the Earth's climatic system produced by global warming; anthropogenic climate change. |
| interglaciationnoun | An interglacial period |
| ice corenoun | A core sample removed from an ice sheet, most commonly from the polar ice caps of Antarctica, Greenland or from high mountain glaciers elsewhere, the properties of which can be used to reconstruct a climatic record of a given area. |
| climatic pessimumnoun | (geology, paleontology, climatology) Any time period, ranging from a few centuries to millions of years, marked by persistently cold temperatures, but not always glaciation. |
| cryocraticnoun | The glacial phase of ecological development, characterized by a cold, dry climate in which vegetation is sparse and lacking in diversity. |
| telocraticnoun | The final interglacial stage, when temperatures are beginning to fall and soils begin to disappear. |
| interglacialnoun | The relatively warm period between glacial periods. |
| cryogeniannoun | (geology) The Cryogenian period. |
| cryostratigraphynoun | (geology) The stratigraphy of ice or of frozen soil |
| illinoiannoun | (geology) A stage of the last Ice Age in North America, lasting from around 190,000 to 130,000 years ago. |
| palaeoclimatologynoun | The scientific study of prehistoric climate of the Earth. |
| paleoclimatenoun | (geology) The climate of the Earth at a specified point in geologic time. |
| xerothermic periodnoun | A warm, dry postglacial interval. |
| palaeoclimatenoun | Alternative spelling of paleoclimate. [(geology) The climate of the Earth at a specified point in geologic time.] |
| greenlandiannoun | (geology, paleontology) The Greenlandian Age, a subdivision of the Holocene epoch. |
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