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  • proper noun geology Of the Pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers.

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Examples

  • Icelandic Glacial is the first U.S. distributed bottled water to receive the CarbonNeutral® Certification from the Carbon Neutral Company.

    25 posts from June 2007 2007

  • All agree that he was living in Europe at the close of the Glacial Age, and we think the evidence sufficient to show that he preceded the glaciers, and that as a rude savage he lived in Europe throughout the long extended portion of time known as the Glacial Age.

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

  • Italian label Glacial Movements 'tagline is' glacial and isolationist ambient 'and the new album from ex-Napalm Death, Painkiller and Scorn mastermind Mick Harris embraces this concept.

    Side-Line news feed 2008

  • The true DaVinci Code behind the bible is not a supreme spiritual power but a scientific record of climate change described as Glacial Respiration.

    Geologist discovers link to the next 911 in global warming policy 2007

  • The true DaVinci Code behind the bible is not a supreme spiritual power but a scientific record of climate change described as Glacial Respiration.

    Reagan: Racist Is As Racist Does « Lean Left 2007

  • Sea floor movement correction to global sea level is referred to as Glacial Isostatic Adjustment see here for example.

    An Analysis of the TOPEX Sea Level Record « Climate Audit 2006

  • He also points out that the evidence is that he lived in Europe during all the changes of that prolonged period known as the Glacial Age.

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

  • Of such periods of strain upon organic nature we know of only one in recent geological times, that known as the Glacial Age, the vast variation in climate which took place when the ice of the Far North flowed down in mighty billows over northern Europe and America, burying everything beneath its crushing weight, and bringing many forms of life to a sudden and untimely end.

    Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877

  • When the great cycle of snow years, called the Glacial

    The Yosemite John Muir 1876

  • I have found a study recently published called Glacial Isostatic Adjustment over Antarctica from combined GRACE and ICESat satellite data which seems to me to agree with the basics of what I was saying.

    RealClimate 2009

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