- a geologic period during which ice thickly covers vast masses of land: astronomical phenomena related to the widespread glaciation of ice ages.
- the most recent of the earth’s many ice ages, occurring during the Pleistocene Epoch: Our familiar continents were shaped quite differently before the Ice Age.
- another name for glacial period
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