ice age

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

  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).

Έννοιες

γκλασάρω αιώνας

Eποχή των παγετώνων

Συνώνυμα

glacial period

glacial epoch

Glacial epoch

drift period

glacial stage

Μεταφράσεις

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Perhaps a calque of German Eiszeit.

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