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Definition of Ice age

1. Noun. Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface. "The most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene"

Definition of Ice age

1. Noun. Any of several cold periods in the history of the earth marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth. ¹

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Literary usage of Ice age

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"To give an answer, we must know within what limits the term ice age is used, ... For it is evident that even to-day man is contemporary with the ice age in ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"Similar evidence of an ice age is found in North America, and to a limited extent in the Himalayas, but in the alluvial plains of Siberia and North Alaska, ..."

3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"CORRESPONDENCE. wc DIVISIONS OF THE ice age IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. ... It is so obviously related to the ice age that Upham and others have ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The mystery of the great ice age, and of the former rich vegetation in the present cold zone, still remains to be solved. FRANK WALDO. ..."

5. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
""ten been referred to as the " ice age," because until quite re- it was supposed to ... This latest ice age represents four complete cycles of glaciation, ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The Glacial period or ice age is here more particularly reviewed, aud is found divisible in two parts or epochs, the first or Glacial epoch being marked by ..."

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