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Great Ice Age

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Great Ice Age [¦grāt ′īs ‚āj]
(geology)
The Pleistocene epoch.


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The basic premise was originally outlined in 1837 by Louis Agassiz in his famous Discours de Neuchatel, in which he set out the case for die Eiszeit, a geologically recent Great Ice Age that had smothered the tropics and wiped out all life.
 
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