Interval of time within an ice age that is marked by warmer temperatures.
1The Earth is currently in another interglacial period called Holocene.
2During every previous similar interglacial period, of which there are at least seven, greenhouse-gas levels fell.
3We are now living in an interglacial period which began 10,000 years ago.
4This was an interglacial period in which Arctic regions of North America were covered in forests and wetlands.
5During the present interglacial period, polar life in the Southern Ocean is sustained mainly by large-scale primary production.
6Kopp's team reconstructed the sea levels in the last interglacial period, around 125,000 years ago.
7The first humans probably arrived during a warm interglacial period, but may have retreated as temperatures plummeted in subsequent ice ages.
8The land apparently sank under the burden, the ice and snow melted at the lower level and there was a temperate interglacial period.
9Discusses theories about an ice age on Mars, interglacial period on the planet, the evolution of Mars and the possibilities of life there.
10We are now living in an interglacial period in an ice age that began about 2.6 million years ago.
11It took nearly 10,000 years to raise temperatures by 1 degree Celsius in the last interglacial period, he says.
12It is now generally believed that man came north in the third interglacial period; though some high authorities think that he came in the second.
13Global average temperatures would surpass that of any interglacial period (the warmer eras between Ice Ages) of the last 1.2 million years.
14Most European geologists count four distinct extensions of the ice-sheet, with three interglacial periods.
15The men of this race lived in Europe from the Third Interglacial period through the Fourth Glacial.
16This information is useful for unraveling the processes associated with past climate changes such as those from glacial and interglacial periods.
Translations for interglacial period