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Glacialperiod
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Aglacialperiod(oralternativelyglacialorglaciation)isanintervaloftime(thousandsofyears)withinan
iceagethatismarkedbycoldertemperaturesandglacieradvances.Interglacials,ontheotherhand,are
periodsofwarmerclimatebetweenglacialperiods.Thelastglacialperiodendedabout15,000yearsago.[1]
TheHoloceneepochisthecurrentinterglacial.AtimewhentherearenoglaciersonEarthisconsidereda
greenhouseclimatestate.[2][3][4]

Contents

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1Quaternaryiceage
2Lastglacialperiod
3Nextglacialperiod
4Seealso
5References

Quaternaryiceage
WithintheQuaternaryglaciation(2.58Mato
present),therehavebeenanumberofglacialsand
interglacials.

Lastglacialperiod
Thelastglacialperiodwasthemostrecentglacial
periodwithinthecurrenticeage,occurringinthe
Pleistoceneepoch,whichbeganabout110,000years
agoandendedabout15,000yearsago.[1]The
glaciationsthatoccurredduringthisglacialperiod
coveredmanyareasoftheNorthernHemisphereand
havedifferentnames,dependingontheirgeographic
distributions:Wisconsin(inNorthAmerica),
Devensian(inGreatBritain),Midlandian(in
Ireland),Wrm(intheAlps),Weichsel(innorthern
centralEurope),andLlanquihueinChile.The
glacialadvancereacheditsmaximumextentabout
18,000BP.InEurope,theicesheetreachednorthern
Germany.

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Glacialandinterglacialcyclesasrepresentedby
atmosphericCO2,measuredfromicecoresamples
goingback800,000years.Thestagenamesarepartof
theNorthAmericanandtheEuropeanAlpine
subdivisions.Thecorrelationbetweenbothsubdivisions
istentative.

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Nextglacialperiod
Sinceorbitalvariationsarepredictable,[5]computermodelsthatrelateorbitalvariationstoclimatecan
predictfutureclimatepossibilities.Twocaveatsarenecessary:thatanthropogeniceffects(humanassisted
globalwarming)arelikelytoexertalargerinfluenceovertheshorttermandthatthemechanismbywhich
orbitalforcinginfluencesclimateisnotwellunderstood.WorkbyBergerandLoutresuggeststhatthe
currentwarmclimatemaylastanother50,000years.[6]

Seealso
Climate
Cyclostratigraphy
Geologictimescale
GlacialhistoryofMinnesota
Glacier
GreenhouseandIcehouseEarth
Iceage
InterglacialandInterstadialperiods
LastGlacialMaximum
lastglacialperiod
Milankovitchcycles
Precession(astronomy)
Quaternaryglaciation
SnowballEarth
Timelineofglaciation
Yarkovskyeffect
YORPeffect

References
1. J.Severinghaus,E.Brook(1999)."AbruptClimateChangeattheEndoftheLastGlacialPeriodInferredfrom
TrappedAirinPolarIce"(http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/286/5441/930).Science286(5441):930
4.doi:10.1126/science.286.5441.930(https://dx.doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.286.5441.930).PMID10542141
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10542141).
2. Bralower,T.J.PremoliSilva,I.Malone,M.J.(2006).[Abstract(http://air.unimi.it/handle/2434/29337)
Summary(http://wwwodp.tamu.edu/publications/198_IR/chap_01/chap_01.htm)Leg198Synthesis:A
Remarkable120m.y.RecordofClimateandOceanographyfromShatskyRise,NorthwestPacificOcean].
ProceedingsoftheOceandrillingprogram.p.47.doi:10.2973/odp.proc.ir.198.2002
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3. ChristopherM.Fedo,GrantM.Young,andH.WayneNesbitt(1997)."Paleoclimaticcontrolonthecomposition
ofthePaleoproterozoicSerpentFormation,HuronianSupergroup,Canada:agreenhousetoicehousetransition"
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301926897000491).PrecambrianResearch(Elsevier).
doi:10.1016/S03019268(97)000491(https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2FS03019268%2897%29000491).
4. MiriamE.Katz,KennethG.Miller,JamesD.Wright,BridgetS.Wade,JamesV.Browning,BenjaminS.
Cramer&YairRosenthal(2008)."StepwisetransitionfromtheEocenegreenhousetotheOligoceneicehouse"
(http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n5/abs/ngeo179.html).NatureGeoscience(Nature).doi:10.1038/ngeo179
(https://dx.doi.org/10.1038%2Fngeo179).
5. F.Varadi,B.Runnegar,M.Ghil(2003)."SuccessiveRefinementsinLongTermIntegrationsofPlanetary
Orbits"(http://astrobiology.ucla.edu/OTHER/SSO/SolarSysInt.pdf).TheAstrophysicalJournal592:620630.
Bibcode:2003ApJ...592..620V(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...592..620V).doi:10.1086/375560
(https://dx.doi.org/10.1086%2F375560).
6. BergerA,LoutreMF(2002)."Climate:Anexceptionallylonginterglacialahead?".Science297(5585):12878.
doi:10.1126/science.1076120(https://dx.doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1076120).PMID12193773
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12193773).

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