glacials

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• glacial, glaciale, glacials ou glaciaux — ● glacial, glaciale, glacials ou glaciaux adjectif (latin glacialis) Qui est très froid, qui provoque une sensation de froid très vif : Un vent glacial. Qui est d un abord réservé, qui manque de chaleur, qui intimide par son hostilité ou son… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Ice age — An ice age is a period of long term reduction in the temperature of the Earth s surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Glaciologically, ice age is often used to mean a… …   Wikipedia

• Pleistocene — The Pleistocene (IPAEng| plaɪstəsi:n) is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years BP covering the world s recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek Polytonic|πλεῖστος ( pleistos most ) and… …   Wikipedia

• Quaternary glaciation — The Ice Age redirects here. For other uses, see Ice age (disambiguation). Last ice age redirects here. This term is also used for the last glacial period of the Quaternary glaciation. Northern Hemisphere glaciation during the Last Glacial Maximum …   Wikipedia

• Marine isotopic stage — Marine isotopic stages (MIS) are alternating warm and cool periods in the Earth s paleoclimate, deduced from oxygen isotope data reflecting temperature curves derived from data from deep sea core samples.The significance of the dataEach stage is… …   Wikipedia

• pleistocene —   first epoch of the Quaternary, 2 m. years BP to 10,000 BP. Characterised by glacials and inter glacials …   Geography glossary

• glacial — glacial, ale (gla si al, a l ) adj. 1°   Qui glace, qui est très froid. Vent, air glacial. •   Il eut d abord à s avancer sur une route glissante, encombrée de bagages et de fuyards, contre un vent violent soufflant en face et au travers d une… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

• Paleolithic — The Paleolithic This box: view · talk · edit ↑ before Homo (Plioc …   Wikipedia

• Snowball Earth — The Snowball Earth hypothesis as it was originally proposedcite book author = Kirschvink, J.L. year = 1992 chapter = Late Proterozoic low latitude global glaciation: The snowball Earth title = The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study… …   Wikipedia

• Deserts and xeric shrublands — Xeric redirects here. For the comic book grant foundation, see Xeric Foundation. Deserts and xeric shrublands is a biome characterized by, relating to, or requiring only a small amount of moisture.[1] Contents 1 Definition and occurrence 2… …   Wikipedia

• Baltic Shield — The Baltic Shield (sometimes referred to as the Fennoscandian Shield) is located in Fennoscandia (Norway, Sweden and Finland), northwest Russia and under the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Shield is defined as the exposed Precambrian northwest segment of …   Wikipedia