Interval of time within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances
For longer glacial periods, see ice age.
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A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances. Interglacials, on the other hand, are periods of warmer climate between glacial periods. The Last Glacial Period ended about 15,000 years ago.[1] The Holocene is the current interglacial. A time with no glaciers on Earth is considered a greenhouse climate state.[2][3][4]
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A glacialperiod (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures...
The Last GlacialPeriod (LGP), also known colloquially as the Last Ice Age or simply the Ice Age, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the...
The Penultimate GlacialPeriod (PGP) is the glacialperiod that occurred before the Last GlacialPeriod. The penultimate glacialperiod is officially unnamed...
Holocene period is an interglacial period of an ice age. The accumulation of anthropogenic greenhouse gases is projected to delay the next glacialperiod. In...
Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is...
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last GlacialPeriod where ice...
may use either definition of the period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacialperiod and also with the end of the Paleolithic...
filling the depression created by the glacier. Near the end of the last glacialperiod, roughly 10,000 years ago, glaciers began to retreat. A retreating glacier...
Alps during the last glacialperiod Younger Dryas, a return to glacial conditions around 7 thousand years after the end of last glacial maximum "2020/3 Geologic...
Last GlacialPeriod, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene together form the Quaternary period. The...
geologic time scale, the Holocene epoch starts at the end of the last glacialperiod of the current ice age (c. 10,000 BC) and continues to the present....
glacialperiod that would have had long-reaching general effects. This idea gained him international fame and led to the establishment of the Glacial...
Rhine built deltas in what is now the Netherlands. The most recent glacialperiod ran from ~74,000 (BP = Before Present), until the end of the Pleistocene...
average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene interglacial began at the...
The glacial history of Minnesota is most defined since the onset of the last glacialperiod, which ended some 10,000 years ago. Within the last million...
The Holocene glacial retreat is a geographical phenomenon that involved the global retreat of glaciers (deglaciation) that previously had advanced during...
Earth is currently in such an interglacial period of the Quaternary glaciation, with the Last GlacialPeriod of the Quaternary having ended approximately...
Regions that experienced greater environmental effects as the last glacialperiod ended have a much more apparent Mesolithic era, lasting millennia. In...
A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from...
Riss-Würm), was the interglacial period which began about 130,000 years ago at the end of the Penultimate GlacialPeriod and ended about 115,000 years ago...
the Saalian glaciation, Saale cold period (German: Saale-Kaltzeit), Saale complex (Saale-Komplex) or Saale glacial stage (called the Wolstonian Stage...
The Weichselian glaciation (Northern Polish glaciation) was the last glacialperiod and its associated glaciation in northern parts of Europe. In the Alpine...
Greater portions of Sundaland were most recently exposed during the last glacialperiod from approximately 110,000 to 12,000 years ago. When the sea level was...
meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacialperiod. At its peak, the lake's area was larger than all of the modern Great...
Glacial melting is accompanied by the rebounding of Earth's crust as the ice load and eroded sediment is removed (also called isostasy or glacial rebound)...
the Holstein interglacial, which was followed Saale glaciation. The glacialperiod is named after the White Elster, a right tributary of the Saale. Traditionally...
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