GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Pleistocene or ice age
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Paleocene or ice age
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Pliocene or ice age
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Holocene or ice age
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known colloquially as the last ice age or simply ice age, occurred from the end of the Eemian to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period c. 115, 000 – c. 11, 700 years ago.
Detailed explanation-2: -So, in fact, the last ice age hasn’t ended yet! Scientists call this ice age the Pleistocene Ice Age. It has been going on since about 2.5 million years ago (and some think that it’s actually part of an even longer ice age that started as many as 40 million years ago).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Last Ice Age The Ice Age began in the Pleistocene epoch, approximately 1.8 million years ago. During the Pleistocene, mountain glaciers formed on all the continents and vast glaciers, in places as much as several thousand feet thick, spread across North America and Eurasia.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the entire Pleistocene, about 17 glacial episodes alternated with 17 interglacials.