Last Glacial Period

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Pleistocene glaciation climatic period glacial period

The Last Glacial Period was the most recent major ice age, spanning roughly 115,000 to 11,700 years ago, during which large ice sheets covered vast areas of North America, Europe, and Asia and global climates were significantly colder and drier than today.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
Late Pleistocene	4
Devensian glaciation	2
Bølling–Allerød interstadial	1
Weichselian glaciation	1

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Pleistocene glaciation ⓘ climatic period ⓘ glacial period ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Last Ice Age NERFINISHED ⓘ Late Pleistocene glaciation ⓘ Weichselian glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ Wisconsin glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ Würm glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWith	Milankovitch orbital cycles NERFINISHED ⓘ
caused	exposure of continental shelves ⓘ formation of land bridges ⓘ
characterizedBy	colder global temperatures ⓘ drier global climate ⓘ expanded permafrost ⓘ extensive continental ice sheets ⓘ growth of mountain glaciers ⓘ lower sea levels ⓘ
climateComparedToPresent	significantly colder ⓘ significantly drier ⓘ
coincidesWith	Neanderthal extinction ⓘ late evolution and dispersal of Homo sapiens ⓘ
drivenBy	changes in Earth’s orbital parameters ⓘ ice–albedo feedbacks ⓘ variations in greenhouse gas concentrations ⓘ
endCoincidesWith	beginning of Holocene ⓘ
endTime	about 11700 years ago ⓘ
evidenceFrom	glacial erratics ⓘ ice cores ⓘ loess deposits ⓘ marine sediment cores ⓘ moraines ⓘ pollen records ⓘ
exposedLandBridge	Bering Land Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Sahul Shelf NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunda Shelf NERFINISHED ⓘ
follows	Penultimate Glacial Period NERFINISHED ⓘ
hadMegafauna	giant ground sloths ⓘ saber-toothed cats ⓘ woolly mammoth NERFINISHED ⓘ woolly rhinoceros NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPeak	Last Glacial Maximum NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPhase	Last Glacial Maximum NERFINISHED ⓘ deglaciation ⓘ
iceSheetsCovered	large parts of North America ⓘ large parts of northern Asia ⓘ large parts of northern Europe ⓘ
importantFor	development of modern ecosystems ⓘ human migration patterns ⓘ
Last Glacial MaximumDate	about 26000 to 19000 years ago ⓘ
majorIceSheet	Antarctic Ice Sheet NERFINISHED ⓘ British–Irish Ice Sheet NERFINISHED ⓘ Cordilleran Ice Sheet NERFINISHED ⓘ Fennoscandian Ice Sheet NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurentide Ice Sheet NERFINISHED ⓘ Patagonian Ice Sheet NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Pleistocene epoch NERFINISHED ⓘ
precedes	Holocene epoch NERFINISHED ⓘ
regionNameInAlps	Würm glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ
regionNameInBritishIsles	Devensian glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ
regionNameInIberia	Würm glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ
regionNameInIreland	Midlandian glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ
regionNameInNorthAmerica	Wisconsin glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ
regionNameInNorthernEurope	Weichselian glaciation NERFINISHED ⓘ
seaLevelDifference	about 120 meters lower than present at maximum ⓘ
startTime	about 115000 years ago ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wisconsin Stage → correlatesWith → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

this entity surface form: Devensian glaciation

Würm glaciation → correspondsTo → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

this entity surface form: Weichselian glaciation

Würm glaciation → correspondsTo → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

this entity surface form: Devensian glaciation

Würm glaciation → correspondsTo → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

Younger Dryas cold event → follows → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bølling–Allerød interstadial

Last Glacial Maximum → partOf → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

Younger Dryas cold event → temporalLocation → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

this entity surface form: Late Pleistocene

Neanderthal extinction → timePeriod → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

this entity surface form: Late Pleistocene

Project 23 → timePeriodStudied → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

this entity surface form: Late Pleistocene

North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core → timeSpan → Last Glacial Period ⓘ

this entity surface form: Late Pleistocene