An interglacial period (or alternatively interglacial) is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene interglacial has persisted since the end of the Pleistocene, about 11,700 years ago. ==Interglacials during the Pleistocen...
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Period of time during an ice age when glaciers retreated because of milder temperatures.
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interglacial, interglacials 1. A comparatively short period of warmth during an overall period of glaciation. 2. A period when a warmer climate separated two periods of glaciation and displayed a characteristic sequence of changes in vegetation. The term is used especially for several such periods that occurred during the Pleistocene epoch, lastin...
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A phase of relatively warm temperatures between glacials. See glacial.
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occurring or formed between times of glacial action.
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