Examples of 'glacial period' in a sentence

Meaning of "glacial period"

This phrase refers to a long period of time, typically thousands or millions of years, during which a significant portion of the Earth's surface is covered in ice or glaciers. It is a geological term used to describe a specific phase in Earth's history

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It was formed during the last glacial period.
A glacial period does not stop the activity of a volcano.
The prairies are a contribution of the glacial period.
At the end of the glacial period there was an ice front here.
Widespread during the last glacial period.
Last glacial period.
Evidence of the last glacial period.
The latest glacial period had resulted in the scouring of copper bearing rocks.
The ice of the glacial period.
All glaciers in the park today are said to be remnants of this glacial period.
The end of a glacial period.
Past history indicates a likelihood of returning to a glacial period.
This plant has survived the last glacial period as a relict organism.
This is likely to be as a result of river damming during a glacial period.
At the end of the last glacial period the basin filled with meltwater.

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The surface was transformed by ice in the last glacial period.
With each glacial period the ice sheets grow at the expense of the oceans.
Existed in the glacial period.
The lake is a natural lake since it was dug by glaciers during a glacial period.
During this last glacial period there were alternating episodes of glacier advance and retreat.
Rudiments of the glacial period.
These oscillations produced cold periods that were as severe as the proceeding glacial period.
This is called a glacial period.
The natural levees and backswamps of these floodplains developed from the last glacial period.
Look up the difference between a glacial period and an ice age.
This occurred during a cold period around the world known as the last glacial period.
It was the second major glacial period of the Phanerozoic.
We are still living with the effects of that glacial period.
Before the Glacial period might well have been clothed by vegetation.
The planet may be entering another glacial period by this time.
But this glacial period was not catastrophic for life on Earth.
The term stadial is a rough equivalent of the term glacial period.
These events are probably the glacial period equivalent of the Bond events.
They were shaped by glacial erosion during the last glacial period.
As the ice receded during the last glacial period parts of Svartrå formed a bay.
Human life that had been disjoined since the glacial period.
Deposited during the whole of the glacial period near the mouth of the Mississippi.
It probably became extinct during the end of the last glacial period.
Weichselian glaciation was the last glacial period and its associated glaciation in Northern Europe.
The basin then filled with water at the end of the glacial period.
During this period the last glacial period known as the Wisconsin ice age begins.
Many of these extinctions occurred during or shortly after the last glacial period.
Here the Würm glaciation of the last glacial period was intensively studied.
They are important in determining sea level rise since the last glacial period.
This Mindel glacial period approx.
These bogs are relicts that have survived since the last glacial period.
At the North Pole this glacial period was quite later.
The area has been inhabited since the end of the last glacial period c.
Here we have the Glacial period which followed the Drift.
Most likely it is believed that they prevented the onset of another glacial period.

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