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Interglacial
Geological interval of warmer temperature that separates glacial periods within an ice age / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An interglacial period (or alternatively interglacial, interglaciation) is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene interglacial began at the end of the Pleistocene, about 11,700 years ago.
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