glacial period in English

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a period in the earth's history when polar and mountain ice sheets were unusually extensive across the earth's surface.
Among them, that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide were high during each warm period, that more dust was in the air during glacial periods , and that ice ages occur very quickly.
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1. Late glacial period, I assume.

2. The planet may be entering another glacial period by this time.

3. These changes may have been responsible for the abrupt climate change that occurred during the last glacial period.

4. The island was Adjoined to the mainland of Australia until the end of the last glacial period about 10,000 years ago.

5. In the present study, we investigated the demographic history of the Broadleaved evergreen tree species Castanopsis sieboldii (Fagaceae) during the last glacial period in Japan

6. The Austronesian language expansion is a Neolithic Age phenomenon that can be associated to the rise of the sea level after the last glacial period

7. Since the start of the Quaternary period about 2.6 million years ago, the eustatic sea level has fallen during each glacial period and then risen again.

8. The Anthropocene is distinguished as a new period either after or within the Holocene, the current epoch, which began approximately 10,000 years ago (about 8000 BC) with the end of the last glacial period.

9. On the other hand, a global warming period of finite duration (based on the assumption that fossil fuel use will cease by the year 2200) will probably only impact the glacial period for about 5,000 years.