ice age

Significado (Inglés)

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).

Conceptos

época glacial

glaciación

período glaciar

edad de los glaciares

Sinónimos

glacial period

glacial epoch

Pleistocene

Glacial epoch

drift period

glacial stage

Traducciones

Eiszeit

période glaciaire

era glaciale

período glacial

glaciation

ijstijd

període glacial

època glacial

glaziale Epoche

era glacial

era do gelo

idade do gelo

عصر جليدي

Etimología (Inglés)

Perhaps a calque of German Eiszeit.