The Penultimate Glacial Period (PGP) is the glacial period that occurred before the Last Glacial Period. The penultimate glacial period is officially...
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number of glacials and interglacials. At least eight glacial cycles have occurred in the last 740,000 years alone. The Penultimate Glacial Period (PGP) is...
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previous ice age, the Penultimate Glacial Period, which ended about 128,000 years ago, was more severe than the Last Glacial Period in some areas such as...
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used by Quaternary geologists in North America to designate the Penultimate Glacial Period c.191,000 to c.130,000 years ago, during the late Middle Pleistocene...
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Riss-Würm) was the interglacial period which began about 130,000 years ago at the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period and ended about 115,000 years ago...
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Ice age (redirect from Glacial Epoch)
Holocene period is an interglacial period of an ice age. The accumulation of anthropogenic greenhouse gases is projected to delay the next glacial period. In...
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Saale glaciation (redirect from Saale Glacial Stage)
covers multiple glacial cycles punctuated by interglacial periods. In its latter part it is coeval with the global Penultimate Glacial Period. The Saalian...
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Interglacial (redirect from Interglacial period)
average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene interglacial began at the...
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the Late Pleistocene is the transition between the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period and the beginning of the Last Interglacial around 130,000 years...
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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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