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  2. Last Glacial Period - Wikipedia

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    The previous ice age within the Quaternary is the Penultimate Glacial Period, which ended about 128,000 years ago, was more severe than the Last Glacial Period in some areas such as Britain, but less severe in others.

  3. Anglian stage - Wikipedia

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    The Anglian was the most extreme glaciation during the last two million years. In Britain the ice sheet reached the Isles of Scilly and the Western Approaches, the furthest south the ice reached in any Pleistocene ice age. [ 7 ]

  4. Timeline of glaciation - Wikipedia

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    Climate history over the past 500 million years, with the last three major ice ages indicated, Andean-Saharan (450 Ma), Karoo (300 Ma) and Late Cenozoic. 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.

  5. Doggerland - Wikipedia

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    As the ice melted at the end of the last glacial period of the current ice age, sea levels rose, and the land began to tilt in an isostatic adjustment as the huge weight of ice lessened. Doggerland eventually became submerged, cutting off what was previously the British peninsula from the European mainland by around 6500 BCE.

  6. Timeline of prehistoric Britain - Wikipedia

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    Devensian glaciation ('Last Glacial Period') begins. c. 60,000 BP Sea levels have dropped sufficiently for Neanderthals to return to Britain in the warmer periods, possibly only as summer visitors. [11] c. 44,000-41,000 BP Jawbone from Kents Cavern. First evidence of modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Britain. [12] [13] c. 40,000 BP

  7. Scientists predict 'mini ice age' will hit in 15 years - AOL

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    Bitter cold winters — cold enough to freeze River Thames in England, which is exactly what happened when the last "mini ice age" hit between 1645 and 1715. Show comments. Advertisement.

  8. Wolstonian Stage - Wikipedia

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    The colder last part from around 194,000 years ago is called the Penultimate Glacial Period. ... Ice Age Britain. The Shotton Project, University of Birmingham ...

  9. Last Glacial Maximum - Wikipedia

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    During the Last Glacial Maximum, much of the world was cold, dry, and inhospitable, with frequent storms and a dust-laden atmosphere. The dustiness of the atmosphere is a prominent feature in ice cores; dust levels were as much as 20 to 25 times greater than they are in the present.