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Examples of ice age in a Sentence
changes that occurred during the last ice age
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The White Sands footprints, whose age scholars estimated again, in a paper published this past October, by analyzing tree pollen and quartz grains in the sedimentary layers, provide the most conclusive evidence to date that humans were actually here much earlier, toward the end of the last ice age.
—Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
His colleagues kept referring to the Holocene, the geological epoch that began at the close of the last ice age, about twelve thousand years ago.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
And as the weight of enormous glaciers that once extended down to New Jersey lifted after the last ice age, a seesaw effect is causing bedrock across the mid-Atlantic and South to sink by about 1 millimeter per year.
—Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
For instance, while the 2003 study only reports temperature change in Antarctica, a 2012 study found that global temperature warmed after CO2 levels rose at the end of the last ice age, according to Edward Brook, an Antarctic ice core researcher at Oregon State University.
—USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
The pygmy right whale, though smaller than the whales of today, is still quite large and would have been larger than the other members of its family that died out around the onset of an ice age.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must unite to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
Have Chernobyl Mutations Rewired Evolution? Gamma-Ray Events Through the Ages
Around 450 million years ago, during the Ordovician era, a sudden ice age is believed to have wiped out two thirds of animal life.
—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
Following 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the franchise picks up with an ancient artifact unleashing an evil force, and Ghostbusters new and old join forces to save the world from a second ice age.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 24 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
ice age
noun1
: a time of widespread glaciation
2
capitalized I&A
: the most recent such period in the earth's past
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