Glacial epoch

Alternative definitions (3), class: vernacular (0)
Term: Glacial epoch
Definition: (1) Any of the geological epochs characterised by an ice age. Thus the Pleistocene may be termed a glacial epoch. (2) Generally an interval of geological time which was marked by a major equatorward advance of ice. It applies to an entire ice age or, rarely, to the individual glacial stages which make up an ice age.
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