ice ages
Mammoth's frigid millennia
Ice ages are periods when Earth's climate cools significantly and ice sheets expand across continents.
The most recent ended roughly 10,000 years ago, leaving glacial landscapes across northern regions.
Scientists identify multiple ice ages throughout Earth's history, with glacial and interglacial periods cycling within them.
Figuratively, an ice age suggests a long cold spell or period of emotional distance: Relations between the two countries entered an ice age.
- Milankovitch cyclesOrbital shifts affecting climate
- glaciationIce sheet spreading process
- Heinrich eventsPaleoclimate iceberg-calving episodes
- paleoclimatePast geological climate conditions
- glaciologyStudy of ice masses
Younger Dryas · glacial period · climate change · glacial cycles · loess · obliquity · precession · eccentricity · permafrost · frozen tundra · glaciers · land bridge · prehistoric · megafauna · Neanderthals · cooling · frozen · thaw
- Earth historygeological time, extinction, eons, fossil, epochs
- Climate Erasglacial period, cooling period, glaciation, icehouse, Younger Dryas
- climateclimate change, climate, weather, global warming, temperature
- Ice Agemammoths, saber-tooth cat, mammoth, woolly mammoth, woolly rhino
- natural cyclescircadian rhythm, sleep cycle, seasons, tides, water cycle
- Stone Agecave painting, paleolithic, hand ax, handaxes, hand axe
age, ice, freeze, ice age, Ice Age, interglacial, Pleistocene