glacial period

How To Use glacial period In A Sentence

• This is exactly what we see going on during the great physical changes which are accomplished over large areas in Central Asia, owing to the desiccation which is going on there since the glacial period. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
• During the early 1970s, most climate experts came to agree that interglacial periods tended to end more abruptly than had been supposed.
• Periods of loess deposition are found to correlate with glacial periods when loess profiles are compared to palaeoclimatic evidence from deep-sea cores.
• None of the streams draining upland areas of the Southeast were glaciated during Pleistocene ice ages or inundated by Cretaceous seas during interglacial periods.
• I cannot believe that the Isthmus of Panama has been open since the commencement of the glacial period; for, notwithstanding the fishes, so few shells, crustaceans, and, according to Agassiz, not one echinoderm is common to the sides. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
• The average extinction probability in the preglacial period is significantly lower than that for both the glacial and preglacial periods.
• This is the time of the most recent interglacial period. Times, Sunday Times
• The abrasive forces of the ice at the bottoms of glaciers may destroy all epilithic (rock-attached) lichen vegetation, but lichens once established are able to survive long periods of snow cover, and even glacial periods [121]. General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
• The millennial-scale asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate records during the last glacial period implies that the global climate system acts as a bipolar see-saw driven by either high-latitudinal and/or near-equatorial sea-surface perturbations.
• The current interglacial period has lasted about 10,000 years. Times, Sunday Times