Ice age (disambiguation)

An ice age is a geologic period characterized by the presence of polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Periods of major glaciation (commonly also referred to as ice ages) are scientifically termed glacial periods.

Ice Age may also refer to:

Science

  • Pleistocene, a geologic epoch which includes the world's most recent repeated glaciations (2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago)
  • Little Ice Age, a hundred years of relative cold in the Middle Ages after what historians term the Medieval Warm Period
  • Last Glacial Period, the most recent glacial period (115,000 to 11,700 years ago)
  • Quaternary glaciation, the geologic period of the last 2.58 million years
  • Late Cenozoic Ice Age, the geologic period of the last 33.9 million years
  • Paleolithic, an archaeological era (3.3 million to 11,650 years ago)
  • Plio-Pleistocene, a geological pseudo-period

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