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polyglacial

polyglacial adjective: pertaining to multiple periods of glacial formation separated by warmer interglacial periods.

Adjective

polyglacial (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to multiple periods of glacial formation separated by warmer interglacial periods.
    • The polyglacial concept (that is, the existence of many glacial periods and climate cyclicity) became accepted.2009, Vaclav Cilek, Earth System: History and Natural Variability, page 462
    • Our knowledge of Pleistocene glaciation has clearly shown that an ice age is not monoglacial, but polyglacial; i.e., during a single ice age several colder glacial [times] episodes alternate with warmer interglacial [times] episodes.2012, H.-E. Reineck, I. B. Singh, Depositional Sedimentary Environments

Origin of polyglacial

From poly- + glacial.

Words formed from polyglacial

Questions about polyglacial

What does polyglacial mean?
Polyglacial means pertaining to multiple periods of glacial formation separated by warmer interglacial periods.
What part of speech is polyglacial?
Polyglacial is an adjective.

Words near polyglacial in the dictionary

  1. polygenomic
  2. polygenotype
  3. polygenotypes
  4. polygenous
  5. polygeny
  6. polyglacial
  7. polyglacialism
  8. polyglacialist
  9. polyglacialists
  10. polyglactin
  11. polyglactins

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