Little Ice Age
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Little Ice Age
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From little + ice age, coined by Dutch-American topographer and geologist François E. Matthes in 1939.
proper noun the Little Ice Age
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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.
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