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    Late Cenozoic Ice Age, or Antarctic Glaciation, began 34 million years ago at the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary and is ongoing. It is Earth's current ice...
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    There have been five or six major ice ages in the history of Earth over the past 3 billion years. The Late Cenozoic Ice Age began 34 million years ago, its...
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  • atmosphere. Ice Age may also refer to: Last Glacial Period, the most recent glacial period (115,000 to 11,700 years ago) Late Cenozoic Ice Age, the geologic...
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    ice appeared and then disappeared during at least four other ice ages. The Quaternary glaciation can be considered a part of a Late Cenozoic Ice Age that...
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    Middle and Late Miocene. Earth sciences portal Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–T boundary) Geologic time scale Late Cenozoic Ice Age "Cenozoic". Lexico...
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    The late Paleozoic icehouse, also known as the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) and formerly known as the Karoo ice age, was an ice age that began in the...
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    (Eocene–Oligocene extinction event). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used to include this early phase. The previous ice age, the Penultimate Glacial Period, which...
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    ice cap. The Antarctic ice sheet began to form earlier, at about 34 Ma, in the mid-Cenozoic (Eocene-Oligocene Boundary). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age...
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  • reduced. As a result, the ice sheets of Antarctica formed and the Earth entered the Late Cenozoic Ice Age (the current ice age). Hassold, N. J. C.; Rea...
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    prosper at the poles, to the current icehouse Earth known as the Late Cenozoic Ice Age. In sedimentary layers throughout the Arctic basin, a unit reaching...
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  • cause of the cat gap could have been the Late Cenozoic Ice Age that began 33.9 million years ago. This ice age caused glaciation in Antarctica that eventually...
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    exposed bedrock that is not covered by ice. During the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, many of those areas had been covered by ice as well. The EAIS rests on a major...
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    Vashon Glaciation (category Ice ages)
    time period in which the arctic ice sheets have existed. The Quaternary Glaciation is part of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which began 33.9 million years...
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    the Late Cenozoic Ice Age. This enormous shift in climatic regime is the leading candidate for the extinction event's cause. Though ephemeral ice sheets...
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  • which the player must hunt dinosaurs, Carnivores: Ice Age allows the player to stalk large Cenozoic animals such as mammoths and saber-toothed cats. In...
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    such as Himalayas and the Andes, is thought to have initiated the Late Cenozoic Ice Age due to increased rates of silicate weathering and draw down of carbon...
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  • period ran from 260 million years ago to 33.9 million years ago. Late Cenozoic Ice Age – the current icehouse period, which began 33.9 million years ago...
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  • Scrat (category Ice Age (franchise))
    Scrat is a fictional character in the Ice Age franchise. He is a saber-toothed squirrel who is obsessed with collecting acorns, constantly putting his...
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    Blancan, Irvingtonian, and Rancholabrean mammal ages". In Woodburne, M. O. (ed.). Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Biostratigraphy and...
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    Neogene (redirect from Late Tertiary)
    David; Harwood, David (24 August 2007). "Sea ice feedback and Cenozoic evolution of Antarctic climate and ice sheets". Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology...
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    yielded ages of up to 300,000 years for its rocks, and it reached its present height about 200,000 years ago. Several tephra layers encountered in ice cores...
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  • Meghalayan (redirect from Meghalayan age)
    for preserving chemical signs of the transition in ages. The global auxiliary stratotype is an ice core from Mount Logan in Canada. In respect of the...
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  • Holocene (redirect from Late Quaternary)
    Stratigraphy. The oldest age, the Greenlandian, was characterized by a warming following the preceding ice age. The Northgrippian Age is known for vast cooling...
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    Eocene (redirect from Late Eocene period)
    ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name Eocene comes from the Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, "dawn") and...
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  • Piacenzian (redirect from Late Pliocene)
    with the European land mammal age MN 16, overlaps the late Chapadmalalan and early Uquian South American land mammal age and falls inside the more extensive...
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    glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ice. At the end of the last ice age about...
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    Paleogene (redirect from Late Paleogene)
    beginning of the Neogene Period 23.03 Mya. It is the first part of the Cenozoic Era of the present Phanerozoic Eon. The earlier term Tertiary Period was...
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    Boellstorff, J (1978). "Chronology of some Late Cenozoic deposits from the central United States and the Ice Ages"(pdf). Transactions of the Nebraska Academy...
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    area was under the sea. During the Cenozoic Era, the chalk was uplifted (see Cenozoic Era). When the last ice age ended, sea levels rose and the English...
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  • Thanetian (redirect from Late Paleocene)
    in 1873. The Thanetian is named after the Thanet Formation, the oldest Cenozoic deposit of the London Basin, which was first identified in the area of...
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