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Jimeno Álvarez

glasacion
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glasacion is incorrectly written, and should be written as "glaciation" being its meaning: glasacion = Glaciacionuna glaciation is a long duration in which lower the global temperature of the Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of continental ice caps and glaciers. The glaciations are subdivided into glacial periods, being the wisconsiense the last to the present day.According to the definition given by the glaciology, glaciation refers to a period with caps glaciers both in the northern hemisphere and the South; According to this definition, we are still in an ice age because still there are polar caps in Groenlandia1 and the vegetations during the last maximum Glacial.Los Antartida.mapa polar icecaps expands during the glaciations. This image is of the Antarctic ice cap.More colloquially, when he speaks of the past million years, uses "glaciation" to refer to periods colder with extensive glacial ice in North America and Eurasia: according to this definition, the most recent glaciation ended 10,000 years ago. This article will use the term ice age in the first sense, the glaciological; the glacial term for colder periods of glaciation; and interglacial warm periods.

  



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