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Bookmark or Share- Pleistocene epoch: The last ice age | Live ScienceThe Pleistocene epoch is a geological time period that includes the last ice age, when glaciers covered huge parts of the globe. Also called the Pleistocene era, or simply the Pleistocene, this...
- Pleistocene Epoch - Ice Age, Climate Change, ExtinctionsThe best-known are those that occurred from the time of the last interglaciation, about 125,000 years ago, to the present. The growth of large ice sheets, ice caps, and long valley glaciers was among the most significant events of the Pleistocene. During times of extensive glaciation, more than 45 million square km.
- Pleistocene Epoch | Plants, Animals, Climate, Ice Age, & FactsPleistocene Epoch, earlier and major of the two epochs of the Quaternary Period of Earth’s history, an epoch during which a succession of glacial and interglacial climatic cycles occurred. It ended 11,700 years ago. It was preceded by the Pliocene Epoch and followed by the Holocene Epoch.
- The Pleistocene Epoch - University of California Museum of PaleontologyThe Pleistocene Epoch. This mammoth (right), found in deposits in Russia, was one of the largest land mammals of the Pleistocene, the time period that spanned from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago.*. Pleistocene biotas were extremely close to modern ones many genera and even species of Pleistocene conifers, mosses, flowering plants, insects ...
- Pleistocene - WikipediaThe Pleistocene (/ ˈ p l aɪ s t ə ˌ s iː n,-s t oʊ-/ PLY-stə-seen, -stoh-; often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from c. 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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