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#<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Pertaining to [[ice]], especially in great masses, such as sheets of [[land ice]] or glaciers.</div><br/> </div> | #<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Pertaining to [[ice]], especially in great masses, such as sheets of [[land ice]] or glaciers.</div><br/> </div> | ||
#<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Pertaining to an interval of [[geologic time]] that was marked by an equatorward advance of [[ice]] during an [[ice age]]; the opposite of [[interglacial phase]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">These intervals are variously called [[glacial periods]], [[glacial epochs]], glacial | #<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Pertaining to an interval of [[geologic time]] that was marked by an equatorward advance of [[ice]] during an [[ice age]]; the opposite of [[interglacial phase]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">These intervals are variously called [[glacial periods]], [[glacial epochs]], glacial "stages," etc.</div><br/> </div> | ||
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glacial
- Pertaining to an interval of geologic time that was marked by an equatorward advance of ice during an ice age; the opposite of interglacial phase.
These intervals are variously called glacial periods, glacial epochs, glacial "stages," etc.
