-
pulses of cold
climate within an ice age are
termed glacial periods (
glacials, glaciations,
glacial stages, stadials, stades, or colloquially, ice ages)...
- lake ice that form on the
surface of
bodies of water. On Earth, 99% of
glacial ice is
contained within vast ice
sheets (also
known as "continental glaciers")...
- A
glacial period (alternatively
glacial or glaciation) is an
interval of time (thousands of years)
within an ice age that is
marked by
colder temperatures...
- A
glacial lake is a body of
water with
origins from
glacier activity. They are
formed when a
glacier erodes the land and then melts,
filling the depression...
- The Last
Glacial Period (LGP), also
known as the Last
glacial cycle,
occurred from the end of the Last
Interglacial to the
beginning of the Holocene, c...
- The
climate was
strongly variable depending on the
glacial cycle,
oscillating between cold
glacial periods and
warmer interglacials, with the sea levels...
- The Last
Glacial Maximum (LGM), also
referred to as the Last
Glacial Coldest Period, was the most
recent time
during the Last
Glacial Period where ice...
-
Glacial striations or
striae are
scratches or
gouges cut into
bedrock by
glacial ab****n.
These scratches and
gouges were
first recognized as the result...
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pyramidal peaks.
Isolated nunataks are also
called glacial islands, and
smaller nunataks rounded by
glacial action may be
referred to as rognons. The word...
- A
glacial refugium (plural
glacial refugia) is a
geographic region which made
possible the
survival of
flora and
fauna during ice ages and
allowed for...
