glaciations in English
noun
1
the process, condition, or result of being covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
These hydrogeological conditions are controlled by relative land and sea level, erosion and deposition, the cold climate processes of permafrost and glaciation , and rock stress changes.
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1. The Pleistocene covers the recent period of repeated glaciations.
2. The repeated glaciations of the Pleistocene were caused by the same factors.
3. Beringia is an ancient arctic landscape that no longer exists as an intact body of land. During Late Pleistocene glaciations when global sea level was lowered by 60 m or more, the shallow continental shelf regions between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska became dry land, forming a land bridge between the two continents.