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  2. Timeline of glaciation - Wikipedia

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    A less severe cold period or ice age is shown during the Jurassic-Cretaceous (150 Ma). There have been five or six major ice ages in the history of Earth over the past 3 billion years. The Late Cenozoic Ice Age began 34 million years ago, its latest phase being the Quaternary glaciation, in progress since 2.58 million years ago.

  3. Ice Age - Wikipedia

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    Ice Age, an American media franchise Ice Age, the first film in the franchise; Ice Age: The Meltdown, a 2006 sequel; Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, a 2009 sequel; Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, a 2011 TV special; Ice Age: Continental Drift, a 2012 sequel; Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade, a 2016 TV special

  4. List of periods and events in climate history - Wikipedia

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    Little Ice Age: Various dates between 1250 and 1550 or later are held to mark the start of the Little ice age, ending at equally varied dates around 1850 1460–1550 Spörer Minimum cold; 1656–1715 Maunder Minimum low sunspot activity; 1790–1830 Dalton Minimum low sunspot activity, cold

  5. Last Glacial Period - Wikipedia

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    The end of the last glacial period, which was about 10,000 years ago, is often called the end of the ice age, although extensive year-round ice persists in Antarctica and Greenland. Over the past few million years, the glacial-interglacial cycles have been "paced" by periodic variations in the Earth's orbit via Milankovitch cycles.

  6. Pleistocene - Wikipedia

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    Ice ages as reflected in atmospheric CO 2, stored in the bubbles from glacial ice of Antarctica During the 2.5 million years of the Pleistocene, numerous cold phases called glacials ( Quaternary ice age ), or significant advances of continental ice sheets, in Europe and North America, occurred at intervals of approximately 40,000 to 100,000 years.

  7. Archaeologists discover key tool that helped early Americans ...

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    The discovery of Stone Age needles made from the bones of foxes, cats and other small carnivores reveal how prehistoric humans survived in cold climes. Archaeologists discover key tool that helped ...

  8. Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery

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    What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica. Working at temperatures of -35C, a team of scientists extracted a 2.8km-long ...

  9. Could Investigating an Ice Age in Chile Shed Light on ... - AOL

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    The last ice age. Hall, a professor at the University of Maine, dates rock samples to determine when and how fast the ice sheet in the Cordillera Darwin mountain range retreated over the southern ...