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ice age

[ahys eyj] / ˈaɪs ˌeɪdʒ /
NOUN
glacial period
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On the floors of many valleys and craters, swirling, grooved patterns reveal where icy material once moved during an earlier martian ice age.

From Science Daily

The glacier shed eight kilometers of ice in that short period, a pace comparable to the rapid withdrawals that marked the end of the last ice age.

From Science Daily

This revealed that, nearly 11,000 years ago, just after the last ice age, dog skulls started to change shape.

From BBC

"During the last ice age, there was almost no cosmic dust in the Arctic sediments," he said.

From Science Daily

In the 1970s, we were warned about a new ice age and in the 1980s of a nuclear winter.

From The Wall Street Journal