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glaciationgla‧ci‧a‧tion /ˌɡleɪsiˈeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable] technical - All this, of course, is during a time of exaggerated relief following the Pleistocene glaciation.
- Both polar regions show evidence of more extensive glaciation in the recent past.
- Certain Martian surface features have been interpreted as evidence of ancient ocean beds and widespread glaciation.
- Some of his best work, on glaciation and on Old Red Sandstone, was done in his spare time.
- The advance and retreat of the last glaciation caused sea-level changes to take place there very recently, in geological terms.
- There were at least six cold periods with glaciation somewhere on the earth.
- This was a brief episode of climatic amelioration after the last glaciation.
- Which of these landscape features, produced by glaciation, are shown on the photograph or on the map?
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