Last Interglacial
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The Last Interglacial was the interglacial period that began about 130,000 years ago at the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period, and ended about 115,000 years ago at the beginning of the Last Glacia
Pieter Harting (1886) assigned Bittium reticulatum as the index fossil for the Last Interglacial.
View of the Last Interglacial–aged coastal terraces of Niebla near Valdivia, Chile.
Last Interglacial erosion surface in a fossil coral reef on Great Inagua, The Bahamas. Foreground shows corals truncated by erosion; behind the geologist is a post-erosion coral pillar which grew on the surface after sea level rose again.
Landscape of Central Europe during the Last Interglacial featuring large herbivorous animals including straight-tusked elephant, Merck's rhinoceros, wild boar, wild horse and aurochs. Other featured animals include western jackdaw, corn crake, black grouse, steppe lemming, the extinct ground squirrel Spermophilus citelloides, European hare and European hamster
Holocene
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The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago. It follows the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the prec
Last Interglacial
…Glacial Period. It corresponds to Marine Isotope Stage 5e. It was the second-to-latest interglacial of the current Ice Age, the most recent being the Holocene which extends to the present day (having followed the Last Glacial Period). During the Last Interglacial, the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere was…
A model of Çatalhöyük, a commonly cited example of a proto-city, 7300 BC
Stages of proglacial lake development in the region of the current North American Great Lakes
Holocene cinder cone volcano on Utah State Route 18 near Veyo
Bronze bead necklace, Muséum de Toulouse