The condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action; Agassiz recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe.The process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice.A period where much of land and sea mass is covered in ice via glaciers, which adversely affects the population of species due to the extreme circumstances of the environment.
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