glacial_epoch has definitions from the field of geology
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[ noun ] (geology) any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface

Examples

"the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene"

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period prehistory

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[ noun ] (geology) from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution

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epoch Quaternary

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