ice age

Significat (Anglès)

1. A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence of major polar ice sheets that reach the ocean and calve icebergs.
2. (colloquial) Any of several glacial periods (within a scientific ice age) marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth (interglacial).

Conceptes

època glacial

període glacial

Sinònims

glacial period

glacial epoch

Pleistocene

Glacial epoch

drift period

glacial stage

Traduccions

Eiszeit

période glaciaire

era glaciale

período glacial

ijstijd

glaciation

época glacial

glaziale Epoche

glaciación

era do gelo

era glacial

idade do gelo

período glaciar

Etimologia (Anglès)

Perhaps a calque of German Eiszeit.