Tag Archives: Quaternary Glaciation

A comparison between ice coverage in the northern hemisphere during the last glacial maximum around 20,000 years ago (top) and contemporary ice coverage in the northern hemisphere (bottom).
c. 10,000 BCE: Understanding the Quaternary Glaciation – The Current Ice Age

The Quaternary glaciation, the current ice age, began around 2.6 million years ago. Our present interglacial period, the Holocene epoch, started about 12,000 years ago. Influenced by Milankovic cycles and other factors, this period has [...]