- 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...
-
climate within an ice age are
termed "
glacial periods" (or, alternatively, "
glacials", "glaciations", "
glacial stages", "stadials", "stades", or colloquially...
- 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")...
-
glacial events. A
major glacial event is a
general glacial excursion,
termed a "
glacial."
Glacials are
separated by "interglacials".
During a
glacial...
- The Last
Glacial Period (LGP)
occurred from the end of the
Eemian to the end of the
Younger Dryas, encomp****ing the
period c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years...
-
accordance with
these agents,
erosion is
sometimes divided into
water erosion,
glacial erosion, snow erosion, wind (aeolic) erosion,
zoogenic erosion, and anthropogenic...
- 650 cal
years before present,
after the last
glacial period,
which concluded with the
Holocene glacial retreat. The
Holocene and the
preceding Pleistocene...
-
Glacial melting is
accompanied by the
rebounding of Earth's
crust as the ice load and
eroded sediment is
removed (also
called isostasy or
glacial rebound)...
- also
known as the
Pleistocene glaciation, is an
alternating series of
glacial and
interglacial periods during the
Quaternary period that
began 2.58 Ma...
- 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...