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Last Glacial Maximum

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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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Late Pleistocene

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was followed by the Late Glacial Interstadial, a period of global warming to 12.9 ka, and the Younger Dryas, a return to glacial conditions until 11.7...

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Stadial

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have even MIS numbers, and interstadials have odd MIS numbers. The current Holocene interstadial is MIS 1, and the Last Glacial Maximum stadial is MIS 2...

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Weichselian glaciation

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Last Glacial Maximum. Between 38 and 28 ka BP there was a relatively warm period in Fennoscandia called the Ålesund interstadial. The interstadial receives...

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Ice age

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intermittent warm periods within an ice age are called interglacials or interstadials. In glaciology, the term ice age is defined by the presence of extensive...

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Younger Dryas

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return to glacial conditions, temporarily reversing the climatic warming of the preceding Bølling–Allerød Interstadial (also known as the Late Glacial Interstadial...

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Glacial history of Minnesota

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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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Glacial erratic

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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...

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Quaternary glaciation

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be another glacial period for the next 50,000 years. It is possible that the current cooling trend might be interrupted by an interstadial phase (a warmer...

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Pleistocene

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stadials are "interstadials". These events are defined differently in different regions of the glacial range, which have their own glacial history depending...

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Penultimate Glacial Period

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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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Laurentide Ice Sheet

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portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The last advance covered...

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Interglacial

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occurred during the last glacial are called interstadials. Most, but not all, interstadials are shorter than interglacials. Interstadial climates may have been...

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Last Interglacial

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ago at the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period and ended about 115,000 years ago at the beginning of the Last Glacial Period. It corresponds to Marine...

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Wisconsin glaciation

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The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsin glaciation, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking...

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Lake Agassiz

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North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period. At its peak, the...

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10th millennium BC

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sapiens was in the Palaeolithic (Old Stone) Age. Following the Late Glacial Interstadial from 14 ka to 12.9 ka, during which global temperatures rose significantly...

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Last Glacial Period

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extinction event). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used to include this early phase. The previous ice age, the Penultimate Glacial Period, which ended about...

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Tell Abu Hureyra

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cultivation of cereal crops was around 13,000 years ago. During the Late Glacial Interstadial, Abu Hureyra site experienced climatic change. Due to lake level...

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Esker

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describe long sinuous ridges, which are now known to be deposits of fluvio-glacial material. The best-known example of such an eiscir is the Eiscir Riada...

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Glacial Lake Wisconsin

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Glacial Lake Wisconsin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed from approximately 18,000 to 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, in...

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Kame

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A kame, or knob, is a glacial landform, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating...

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Till plain

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Till plains are an extensive flat plain of glacial till that forms when a sheet of ice becomes detached from the main body of a glacier and melts in place...

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