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#<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Any of the [[geologic periods]] that embraced an [[ice age]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">For example, the [[Quaternary period]] may be called a "glacial period."</div><br/> </div>
#<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Generally, an interval of [[geologic time]] that was marked by a major equatorward advance  of [[ice]].</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">This may be applied to an entire [[ice age]] or (rarely) to the individual [[glacier]] "stages" that make  up an ice age. The term "period" here is not used in the most technical sense of a [[geologic period]].</div><br/> </div>
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