glacial period

noun

any period of time during which a large part of the earth's surface was covered with ice, due to the advance of glaciers, as in the late Carboniferous period, and during most of the Pleistocene; glaciation
often capitals the Pleistocene epoch

They were exterminated by a glacial period not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five years in duration.

The fossils of the times between the Glacial period and the Neolithic period indicate variations of climatic conditions.

Greenland and the Arctic regions hold all that remains of the glacial period in North America.

See, I will stretch my hand Between it and the sun; the passing shadow Gives its poor dwellers a glacial period.

Therefore an inter-glacial period is indicated as having preceded the Mousterian age.

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