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Last Glacial Period, the most recent glacial period (115,000 to 11,700 years ago) Late Cenozoic Ice Age, the geologic period of the last 33.9 million years. Little Ice Age, a period of relative cold in certain regions from roughly 1450–1480.
- Late Cenozoic Ice Age
The Late Cenozoic Ice Age, or Antarctic Glaciation, began 34...
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- Quaternary Glaciation
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- Timeline of Glaciation
There have been five or six major ice ages in the history of...
- Late Cenozoic Ice Age
May 24, 2017 · An Ice Age is a period in which the earth's climate is colder than normal, with ice sheets capping the poles and glaciers dominating higher altitudes. Within an ice age, there are varying pulses of colder and warmer climatic conditions, known as 'glacials' and 'interglacials'.
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Mar 24, 2024 · Ice age, any geologic period during which thick ice sheets cover vast areas of land. Such periods of large-scale glaciation may last several million years and drastically reshape surface features of entire continents. A number of major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth history.
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Mar 11, 2015 · An ice age is a period of colder global temperatures and recurring glacial expansion capable of lasting hundreds of millions of years. Learn about the causes, effects and human adaptation of the five significant ice ages in Earth's history, from the Huronian to the Quaternary, and how they relate to the current climate change.
An ice age is a period when for a long time the temperature of Earth's climate is very low. This leads to an expansion of the continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers. 'Ice age' is a term used in palaeoclimatology for the period of extensive ice sheets in the recent Pleistocene period. We now know that ice ages have ...
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