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UK
/ɡlˌeɪsɪˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌɡɫeɪʃiˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɡɫeɪʃiˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action
Agassiz recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe - the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice
How To Use glaciation In A Sentence
- I will guess that the hypothesis is that the Earth enters a deglaciation period because of orbital parameters deglaciation occurs when the northern hemisphere winter is extra-cold and the northern hemisphere summer is extra-warm. "Crisis = opportunity + danger."
- At the time Milankovitch did his work, it was generally assumed that four glaciations had occurred in the Alps during the Pleistocene, named Günz, Mindel, Riss and Würm. Milankovitch, Milutin
- We've had glaciations and we've had warmer periods, and vegetation would creep back as the glaciers were retreating.
- In the west, the fiordlands and alpine terrain of British Columbia attest to vigorous glaciation of high-relief mountains in a snowy, maritime climate.
- Geologically young, the Rockies exhibit faulting, glaciation, and volcanism, resulting in rugged, spectacularly scenic terrain.
- The effects of deglaciation on tropical regions are not fully understood, but ambient temperatures at equatorial latitudes were cooler by approximately 5C during the last glacial maximum.
- This might be the result of genetically different populations or the populations that have emerged from different geohistorical periods depending on deglaciation processes.
- Differences in abiotic factors such as differential effects of glaciation and sea-level changes on land and in the sea may also greatly influence biogeographic patterns.
- Then the amount of snowfall tapers off during the next 200 years of deglaciation.
- I know it's not as well understood - but what is the approximate time frame over which carbon dioxide values returned to normal after the catastrophic deglaciations in the late Precambrian?