help?
2007-12-16 10:42:44 · 3 answers · asked by SwimChick12 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
now? seriously. We are in what's called an interglacial warm period in an ice age that has lasted about 3 million years so far.
If you want to know when the ice retreated because of the onset of this current warm period, the biggest retreat occurred from about 15 to about 10 thousand years ago (and actually is still going on). Where I live was under a glacier at about 11500 years ago.
EDIT. It occurred to me that you might want the term Pleistocene.
2007-12-16 10:57:46 · answer #1 · answered by busterwasmycat 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, it is not the Pleistocene, for that is an epoch. The most recent glacial event (ice age) occurred (or is occurring) in the Cenozoic Era.
2007-12-17 03:27:25 · answer #2 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pleistocene
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2007-12-16 11:00:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋