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Synonyms for glaciation
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gley-shee-eyt, -see- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgleɪ ʃiˌeɪt, -si- |
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Définition of glaciation
Origin :- 1640s, noun of action from Latin glaciare "to freeze" (see glacis).
- As in cold : noun frigid conditions
- It is that of a cold climate, accompanied by glaciation and boulder deposits.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Earth and Man » by J. W. Dawson
- The development of glaciation was in strict accordance with existing conditions.
- Extract from : « Fragments of Earth Lore » by James Geikie
- The second glaciation was by far the greatest both in Europe and America.
- Extract from : « Men of the Old Stone Age » by Henry Fairfield Osborn
- It evidently belongs to the valley or to a later stage of glaciation.
- Extract from : « The Home of the Blizzard » by Douglas Mawson
- We have considered the Laurentian highland and the glaciation which centered there.
- Extract from : « The Red Man's Continent » by Ellsworth Huntington
- But since destruction by glaciation no way has been opened for their return.
- Extract from : « The Chain of Life in Geological Time » by Sir J. William Dawson
- Most of their results are the reverse of those which brought on glaciation.
- Extract from : « Climatic Changes » by Ellsworth Huntington
- Yet glaciation is now far less extensive than in the Pleistocene.
- Extract from : « Climatic Changes » by Ellsworth Huntington
- During the Archeozoic, no evidence of glaciation has yet been discovered.
- Extract from : « Climatic Changes » by Ellsworth Huntington
- Within the field of glaciation, so far as the ice rested bodily on the surface, the rocks were rapidly worn away.
- Extract from : « Outlines of the Earth's History » by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Antonyms for glaciation
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