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The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.
16 sie 2019 · These spatial patterns in Late Pleistocene ice extent suggest that glaciation may be initiated in the Pacific region, before spreading to the North Atlantic region.
The southernmost extent of the Pleistocene ice sheets is indicated by the Scandinavian erratics and was formed by the South Polish Glaciations (Elsterian), partly replaced in the west by the Odranian of the Middle Polish Glaciations (Saalian I).
During the 2.5 million years of the Pleistocene, numerous cold phases called glacials (Quaternary ice age), or significant advances of continental ice sheets, in Europe and North America, occurred at intervals of approximately 40,000 to 100,000 years.
Glaciers and small ice caps formed in the Alps and in the other high mountains of Europe and Asia. In the Southern Hemisphere, the Patagonia Ice Cap developed in the southern Andes, and ice caps and larger valley glaciers formed in the central and northern Andes.
5 paź 2012 · The former cold and thick glaciers combined with stable icy permafrost constitute the peculiar Siberian type of Pleistocene glaciation. Glaciers of the Russian North probably grew within the same time-spans as in Europe but their dynamics and degradation patterns were different.
15 maj 2023 · The timing of precession and obliquity cycles determined the duration of each glacial/interglacial period during the Early Pleistocene, according to dynamic ice-sheet-climate simulations of...
