In a glacial epoch or in the arsis of an historic pulsation, storms are usually abundant and severe, the mean temperature is lower than usual, snow accumulates in high latitudes or upon lofty mountains.
Suppose that for thirty or forty thousand years the sun cooled off enough so that the earth was as cool as during a glacial epoch.
The most important feature of both sequences is the swing from a glacial to an inter-glacial epoch or from the arsis or accentuated part of an historical pulsation to the thesis or unaccented part.
DX] [Footnote DX: On page 106 and sequel I have summarised the reasons which lead me to discard the Inter-Glacial epoch, and to look upon the whole Glacial period as constituting a grand unity with minor episodes.
Thus it will appear that a change in the direction of the moist winds blowing from the equator towards the poles might produce a Glacial epoch.
Hence, the recourse to the "glacial epoch" for some event which might colourably represent a flood, distinctly asserted by the only authority for it to have occurred in historical times, is peculiarly unfortunate.
What, then, is the relevancy of talk about the "glacial epoch" to the question of the historical veracity of the narrator of the story of the Noachian deluge?
Post-glacial Epoch, in which man lived cotemporaneously with the mammoth and reindeer (Cervus tarandus).
Glacial Epoch, in which man lived cotemporaneously with the mammoth (Elephas primigenius), rhinoceros (R.
It is incredible that coniferous forests could have flourished at that elevation during a glacial epoch.
We cannot doubt that similar but much more intense action must have taken place over very wide regions in Europe during a glacial epoch.
Now, I ask you, in the first place, to bear in mind that while a glacial epoch continued, extreme conditions could not have been restricted to the areas undergoing glaciation.
Try, then, to picture to yourselves the probable aspect of those regions during a glacial epoch.
These are enumerated below: 6th Glacial epoch, Upper Turbarian, indicated by the deposits of peat which underlie the lower raised beaches.
Glacial epoch, Mecklenburgian, represented by the moraines of the last great Baltic glacier, which reach their southern limit in Mecklenburg; the 100-ft.
Glacial epoch--since the deposition of the clays with Arctic shells and the Saxicava sands--there have been no great oscillations, but only a gradual amelioration of climate.
But during a Glacial epoch, an inch, either more or less, of precipitation might mean a considerable advance or retreat of the ice in the lowlands.
The beaches which mark the successive heights of these glacial lakes are not parallel; hence the warping began before the Glacial epoch closed.
Along one of the faults of this region it is estimated that there has been a movement of at least four hundred feet since the Glacial epoch.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glacial epoch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
