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Ice age

An ice age is a period of time when decreased temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere results in the prolonged presence or expansion of continental alpine glaciers and polar ice caps. The term is applied in several different senses to very long and comparatively short periods of cooling. An ice age may consist of numerous sub-periods where the…

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Major ice ages

Glacials and interglacials

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Recent glacial and interglacial phases

Effects of glaciation

Future ice ages

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related to External links · 29
Ice age → AccuWeather, Archived, Aug, August, BBC News, Carbon, Cracking, Eduard, Environment, Glaciers, Ice Age Archived, January, July, June, Khlystov, Lake Baikal, Last Glacial Maximum, October, Oleg, Osipov
related to Major ice ages · 25
Ice age → Andean-Saharan, Correlative Huronian, Cryogenian, Earth, Earth's, Great Oxygenation Event, However, Huronian, Huronian Supergroup, Lake Huron, Marie, Marquette, Michigan, Outside, Paleoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Proterozoic Eon, Quaternary Ice Age, Rocks, Sault Ste
see also · 21
Ice age → BCE, Chronology, Circa, Climatic, Discredited, Earth, Earth's, EarthInternational Union, Geologic, Geology, Ice, International, Maximum, Medieval Warm Period, Northern Europe, Pleistocene Ice AgeLast Glacial, Post-glacial, Quaternary Research, Rise, Sea Glacier
related to Variations in Earth's orbit · 17
Ice age → CO2, Each, Earth, Earth's, For, It, July, Milankovitch, Milanković, Of, Some, Sun, The, The Milankovitch, There, W/m2, Within
related to Glacial stages in North America · 15
Ice age → Afton, During, Eemian, Illinoian, Kansan, Last Glacial Maximum, Nebraskan, North America, North American, Pre-Illinoian, Quaternary, The, These, Wisconsin, Yarmouthian
has cause · 14
Ice age → Antarctica, CO2, Dome, Earth, Earth's, EPICA, European Project, For, Ice Coring, Milankovitch, Moon, Some, Sun, The
related to Future ice ages · 14
Ice age → According, Based, Cardiff University, CO2, Earth, Given, Human, Ice, IPCC, Northern Hemisphere, Only, Past Global Changes Project, Pg, Stephen Barker
related to Uplift of the Tibetan plateau · 13
Ice age → According, Because, Earth's, Ice Ages, Kuhle, Last Glacial Maximum, Matthias Kuhle's, Nordic, Pleistocene Ice Age, The, This, Tibet, Tibetan Plateau
related to Volcanism · 9
Ice age → At, Carbon, CO2, Eocene Thermal Maximum, One, Paleocene, There, Volcanic, Volcanoes
related to Changes in Earth's atmosphere · 8
Ice age → CO2, Greenhouse, Proterozoic, Snowball Earth, Snowball Earths, The, The Snowball Earth, There

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Ice ageis aperiod of time when decreased temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere results in the prolonged presence or expansion of continental alpine glaciers and polar ice caps0.90text
Ice ageis amost studied and best understood0.90text
glacial morainesinstance ofThese also confirm the linkage between ice ages and continental crust phenomena0.80text
drumlinsinstance ofThese also confirm the linkage between ice ages and continental crust phenomena0.80text
and glacial erraticsinstance ofThese also confirm the linkage between ice ages and continental crust phenomena0.80text
CO2 produced by volcanoesinstance ofpossibly being ended by the accumulation of greenhouse gases0.80text
on Baffin Island.The definition of the Quaternary as beginning 2.58 Ma is based on the formation of the Arctic ice capinstance ofAll that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and smaller glaciers0.80text
sunspot cyclesinstance ofevery one billion years.Shorter-term variations0.80text
and longer episodes such as the Maunder Minimuminstance ofevery one billion years.Shorter-term variations0.80text
which occurred during the coldest part of the Little Ice Age.The long-term increase in the Sun's output cannot be a cause of ice ages.VolcanismVolcanic eruptions may have contributed to the inception and/or the end of ice age periodsinstance ofevery one billion years.Shorter-term variations0.80text
which occurred during the coldest part of the Little Ice Age.The long-term increase in the Sun's output cannot be a cause of ice agesinstance ofevery one billion years.Shorter-term variations0.80text
Ice agehas causeThe0.60section

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