The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known colloquially as the Last Ice Age or simply the Ice Age, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the...
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the other hand, are periods of warmer climate between glacial periods. The Last Glacial Period ended about 15,000 years ago. The Holocene is the current...
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The Penultimate Glacial Period (PGP) is the glacial period that occurred before the Last Glacial Period. The penultimate glacial period is officially unnamed...
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The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice...
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Ice age (redirect from Glacial Epoch)
Holocene period is an interglacial period of an ice age. The accumulation of anthropogenic greenhouse gases is projected to delay the next glacial period. In...
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followed the last glacial period). During the Last Interglacial, the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere was about 280 parts per million. The Last Interglacial...
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Wisconsin glaciation (redirect from Wisconsin Glacial Stage)
Wisconsin glaciation, also called the Wisconsin glacial episode, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking...
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Quaternary glaciation (redirect from Next glacial period)
the end of the last glacial period, only the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have survived, while other sheets formed during glacial periods, such as...
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Late Cenozoic Ice Age (section Last Glacial Period)
Alps during the last glacial period Younger Dryas, a return to glacial conditions around 7 thousand years after the end of last glacial maximum "2020/3...
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filling the depression created by the glacier. Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,000 years ago, glaciers began to retreat. A retreating...
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the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression. Post-glacial rebound and isostatic depression are phases of glacial isostasy (glacial isostatic...
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Holocene (redirect from Post-glacial)
approximately 11,700 years ago. It follows the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene...
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Pleistocene (redirect from Glacial epoch)
may use either definition of the period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic...
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Last Glacial Maximum refugia were places (refugia) in which humans and other species survived during the Last Glacial Period, around 25,000 to 18,000 years...
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the most essential heating surface of the atmosphere. During the Last glacial period a c. 2,400,000 square kilometres (930,000 sq mi) ice sheet covered...
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five of the last seven glacial periods over the past 640,000 years. Heinrich events are particularly well documented for the last glacial period but notably...
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List of time periods (redirect from Time period)
geologic time scale, the Holocene epoch starts at the end of the last glacial period of the current ice age (c. 10,000 BC) and continues to the present...
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The glacial history of Minnesota is most defined since the onset of the last glacial period, which ended some 10,000 years ago. Within the last million...
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Bølling–Allerød Interstadial (redirect from Late Glacial)
to c. 12,890 years Before Present, during the final stages of the Last Glacial Period. It was defined by abrupt warming in the Northern Hemisphere, and...
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glacial retreat is a geographical phenomenon that involved the global retreat of glaciers (deglaciation) that previously had advanced during the Last...
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Rhine (section End of the last glacial period)
Boundary Fault, the substrate and geomorphology, as inherited from the Last Glacial period and the coastal-marine dynamics, such as barrier and tidal inlet...
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Weichselian glaciation (redirect from Weichsel Glacial Stage)
The Weichselian glaciation (Northern Polish glaciation) was the last glacial period and its associated glaciation in northern parts of Europe. In the...
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Greater portions of Sundaland were most recently exposed during the last glacial period from approximately 110,000 to 12,000 years ago. When the sea level...
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Earth is currently in such an interglacial period of the Quaternary glaciation, with the Last Glacial Period of the Quaternary having ended approximately...
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Rhine Glacier (category Last Glacial Period)
The Rhine Glacier was a glacier during the last glacial period and was responsible for the formation of the Lake Constance. Shirley, Martha Lou (1966)...
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Interglacial (redirect from Interglacial period)
average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene interglacial began at the...
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Sangamonian (redirect from Sangamonian Interglacial Period)
America to designate the Last Interglacial (130,000-115,000 years ago) and depending on definition, part of the early Last Glacial Period, corresponding to Marine...
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Early Holocene sea level rise (category Last Glacial Period)
the Neolithic Revolution to Europe in its Neolithic period. During deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum, between about 20,000 to 7,000 years ago (20–7...
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Northwest Russia (section Last glacial period)
eastward. In northwestern Russia the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet reached its Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) extent 17 ka BP, five thousand years later than in Denmark...
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Lake Agassiz (redirect from Glacial Lake Agassiz)
meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period. At its peak, the lake's area was larger than all of the modern Great...
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