-
pulses of cold
climate within an ice age are
termed glacial periods (
glacials, glaciations,
glacial stages, stadials, stades, or colloquially, ice ages)...
- 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")...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Last
Glacial Period (LGP), also
known as the Last
glacial cycle,
occurred from the end of the Last
Interglacial to the
beginning of the Holocene, c...
- The
climate was
strongly variable depending on the
glacial cycle,
oscillating between cold
glacial periods and
warmer interglacials, with the sea levels...
- of
unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock),
sometimes referred to as
glacial till, that
occurs in both
currently and
formerly glaciated regions, and...
- A
glacial erratic is a
glacially deposited rock
differing from the type of rock
native to the area in
which it rests. Erratics,
which take
their name from...
- The Last
Glacial Maximum (LGM), also
referred to as the Last
Glacial Coldest Period, was the most
recent time
during the Last
Glacial Period where ice...
-
Glacial landforms are
landforms created by the
action of glaciers. Most of today's
glacial landforms were
created by the
movement of
large ice
sheets during...
