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Meaning of "glacial periods"

glacial periods: This phrase denotes extended periods of time characterized by glacial activity or the presence of large ice sheets. It is commonly used in geology and climatology to describe epochs marked by widespread glaciation

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Various glacial periods interrupted this coastal occupation.
Pluvial lakes were most extensive during glacial periods.
Between glacial periods were the interglacials with a warmer climate.
These events are known as glacial periods.
The glacial periods contributed large amounts of sediment to the trough.
In addition moraines have been left behind by various glacial periods.
Long glacial periods have shaped this incredible karstic network.
We obviously have had numerous glacial periods in the past.
Glacial periods with ice cover the region forming moraines.
These are called glacial periods.
These long glacial periods were separated by more temperate and shorter interglacials.
No satisfactory theory on the cause of glacial periods has yet been accepted.
These intervals of greater moisture availability are not always contemporaneous with glacial periods.
Much of the shelves were exposed during glacial periods and interglacial periods.
The Zakopane Valley has three gravel top soil coverings from three separate glacial periods.

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These consisting of glacial periods where conditions are colder than normal, separated by interglacial periods.
A better understanding of this would probably inform us as to how glacial periods start.
For example, on the geological time scale, glacial periods alternate with interglacial periods.
Interglacial - a period of warmer climate conditions between glacial periods.
Why do glacial periods end abruptly?
In one of those long, cold glacial periods.
These glacial periods are separated by interglacials, each one of them lasting around 10 thousand years.
For a long time, the term only referred to glacial periods.
During the glacial periods the limits of the permanent snow cover were at 2200 m.
Interglacials, on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate between glacial periods.
By contrast, the transport times of sediments during glacial periods are approximately 2-5 times longer.
Sernander defined subboreal and subatlantic periods, as well as the late glacial periods.
High CO2 contents correspond to warm interglacial periods, and low CO2 to glacial periods.
Rila 's alpine relief was formed during the Pleistocene by a series of glacial periods.

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