Prolonged period of warm global climate when ice retreats to high mountains and the polar regions only.
A warm period between glacial epochs.
the warm part of the ice age cycle.
Pertaining to or formed during the time interval between two successive glacial epochs or between two glacial stages. Ther term implies both the melting of ice sheets to about their present level, and the maintenance of a warm climate for a sufficient length of time to permit certain vegatational changes to occur.
The periods in Earth's history when glaciers are a minimum in size and extent, and the temperatures are warm, such as at present.
A time interval between glacial periods characterized by lack of glacial ice in mid-latitudes, such as modern Holocene climate.
period of warmer, wetter climate between two Ice Ages or glacials
Period between two ice ages (as at present). ()
A comparatively long warmer phase of a glacial period when considerable glacial retreat occurs.
A warm period between two glaciers.
of or occurring in the period between two glacial epochs. [AHDOS
A period of warm climate during the Pleistocene (and earlier glacial epochs) during which continental glaciers retreated to minimum extent. Interglacials have been of approximately 10 000 years duration, spaced at approximately 100 000-year intervals over the last 1 000 000 years. The last 10 000 years, or postglacial, is generally considered to be an interglacial.
An Interglacial is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature that separates glacials, or ice ages. The current Holocene interglacial has persisted since the Pleistocene, about 11,400 years ago.