Whether global climate will cool enough to produce the long-overdue glaciation or remain warm enough to avoid that fate is impossible to predict. 至于全球气候到底会变得够冷、冰期虽然迟到但终究来临,或是会维持温暖而避开下一个冰期,则不得而知了。
The development of an atypical Hirnantia-brachiopod Fauna and the onset of glaciation in the late Ordovician of Gondwana/ Owen E. Sutcliffe...[ et al.]. 冈瓦纳古陆晚奥陶统一个典型的赫南特贝属-腕足动物群的发育和冰川作用的开始.
Studies of certain fossil distributions and of the pollen of certain temperate plants suggest decreases of a degree or two in both summer and winter temperatures and, therefore, that we may be in the declining climatic phase leading to
glaciation
[ noun ]
the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action
<noun.state> Agassiz recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe
the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice
<noun.process>
Glaciation \Gla`ci*a"tion\, n. 1. Act of freezing.
2. That which is formed by freezing; ice.
3. The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.