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Glaciation vs Neoglacial - What's the difference?

glaciation | neoglacial |

As a noun glaciation

is act of freezing.

As an adjective neoglacial is

describing any of several relatively recent periods (during the Holocene) of increased glaciation.

glaciation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Act of freezing.
  • That which is formed by freezing; ice.
  • The process of covering with a glacier, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.
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    neoglacial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Describing any of several relatively recent periods (during the Holocene) of increased glaciation