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What is an ice age?

What is an ice age? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (sciences) A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence of polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
  2. (colloquial) Any of several glacial periods (within a scientific ice age) marked by episodes of extensive glaciation alternating with episodes of relative warmth (interglacial).
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Rising sea levels and longshore drift since the ice age have created a remarkable, 500 km-long beach.
Maybe volcanoes covered the land in lava, poisoned the air, and brought on an ice age.
Two centuries ago, much of the Northern Hemisphere was emerging from a little ice age.
Sunspot activity seems to have been less common during the little ice age, and this further confuses the issue.
The earth has gradually been warming since the little ice age, again with a few peaks and dips in temperature.
During the little ice age, solar activity was known to be lower than it is now.

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