ice age

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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).

Konzepte

Eiszeit

glaziale Epoche

Diluvium

Pleistozän

Glazial

Synonyme

glacial period

glacial epoch

Pleistocene

Glacial epoch

drift period

glacial stage

Übersetzungen

période glaciaire

era glaciale

período glacial

ijstijd

glaciation

época glacial

idade do gelo

època glacial

glaciación

era glacial

període glacial

era do gelo

عصر جليدي

buzul çağı

Etymologie (Englisch)

Perhaps a calque of German Eiszeit.