Little Ice Age

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850.
    — The Little Ice Age that chilled Europe–variously dated from 1250 to 1900 or 1550 to 1850–should, according to past precedents, have snowballed into a full-blown ice age.

词形变化

the Little Ice Age canonical

词源

From little + ice age, coined by Dutch-American topographer and geologist François E. Matthes in 1939.
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