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Pleistocene 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 (/ ˈ p l aɪ s t ə ˌ s iː n,-s t oʊ-/ PLY-stə-seen, -stoh-; [5] [6] 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.Before a change was finally confirmed in 2009 by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the cutoff of the ...
The Pleistocene epoch is a geological time period that lasted from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, characterized by repeated glacial cycles and significant climatic changes.
Definition. The Pleistocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 2.6 million to approximately 11,700 years ago, characterized by repeated glacial cycles and significant climate fluctuations.
Definition. The Pleistocene was a geological epoch that lasted from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, characterized by repeated glaciations and significant changes in climate and biodiversity.
Pleistocene Epoch - Ice Age, Climate Change, Extinctions: Environments during the Pleistocene were dynamic and underwent dramatic change in response to cycles of climatic change and the development of large ice sheets.
a geological epoch that lasted somewhere between 2,580,000 to about 11,700 years ago, it fell between the Pliocene epoch and the Holocene epoch
