ICE AGE by MagikUnicorn

Terragen • Landscape • posted on Aug 24, 2015

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An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of cold climate are termed "glacial periods" (or alternatively "glacials" or "glaciations" or colloquially as "ice age"), and intermittent warm periods are called "interglacials". Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres. By this definition, we are in an interglacial period—the Holocene—of the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist. _________________________________________________ Age de Glace Une glaciation (ou englaciation) est une période glaciaire, c'est-à-dire à la fois une phase paléoclimatique froide et une période géologique de la Terre durant laquelle une part importante des continents est englacée. L'histoire de la Terre est marquée par de nombreux épisodes glaciaires. Le Quaternaire se caractérise par leur relative fréquence et leur régularité.