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  2. Glacial period - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Ice Age - Wikipedia

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    Last Glacial Period, the most recent glacial period (115,000 to 11,700 years ago) Penultimate Glacial Period, the glacial period that occurred before the Last Glacial Period; 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

  4. Timeline of glaciation - Wikipedia

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    Within ice ages, there exist periods of more severe glacial conditions and more temperate conditions, referred to as glacial periods and interglacial periods, respectively. The Earth is currently in such an interglacial period of the Quaternary glaciation, with the Last Glacial Period of the Quaternary having ended approximately 11,700 years ago.

  5. Little Ice Age - Wikipedia

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    The term was introduced into scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939. [4] The period has been conventionally defined as extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries, [5] [6] [7] but some experts prefer an alternative time-span from about 1300 [8] to about 1850. [9] [10] [11] The NASA Earth Observatory notes three particularly ...

  6. Last Glacial Period - Wikipedia

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    A chronology of climatic events of importance for the Last Glacial Period, about the last 120,000 years The Last Glacial Period caused a much lower global sea level.. The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the ...

  7. Elster glaciation - Wikipedia

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    The Elster glaciation (German: Elster-Kaltzeit, Elster-Glazial or Elster-Zeit) or, less commonly, the Elsterian glaciation, in the older and popular scientific literature also called the Elster Ice Age (Elster-Eiszeit), is the oldest known ice age that resulted in the large-scale glaciation of North Germany and other parts of Europe. It took ...

  8. Penultimate Glacial Period - Wikipedia

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    The penultimate glacial period expanded ice sheets and shifted temperature zones worldwide, which had a variety of effects on the world's environment, and the organisms that lived in it. [4] At its height, the penultimate glacial period was a more severe glaciation than the Last Glacial Maximum. [2]

  9. Sturtian glaciation - Wikipedia

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    The Sturtian glaciation is an informal, but commonly used name for the older of two worldwide glacial events (the other is known as the Marinoan/Elatina glaciation) preserved in Cryogenian rocks. [6] The term Sturtian was originally defined [ 10 ] as a chronostratigraphic unit (Series) and later proposed as an international chronostratigraphic ...