ice age

Senso (Inglese)

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).

Concetti

era glaciale

ghiaccio età

sinonimi

glacial period

glacial epoch

Pleistocene

Glacial epoch

drift period

glacial stage

Traduzioni

Eiszeit

période glaciaire

período glacial

ijstijd

glaciation

época glacial

era do gelo

idade do gelo

període glacial

glaciación

glaziale Epoche

època glacial

era glacial

edad de los glaciares

Etimologia (Inglese)

Perhaps a calque of German Eiszeit.