Last Glacial Period
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last-glacial-period-187-9719587
title:
Last Glacial Period
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The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, c. 115,000 – c. 11,700 years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene. The LGP is part of a larger sequence of glacial and interglacial periods known as the Quaternary glaciation which started around 2,588,000 years ago and is ongoing. The glaciation and the current Quaternary Period both began with the formation of
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Period of major glaciations of the Northern Hemisphere (115,000–12,000 years ago)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period
date created:
2004-03-27T18:28:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T11:53:25Z
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