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How thick was the ice cap during the ice age?

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During the last ice age, the thickness of the glaciers varied with location and time. It has been suggested that in North America, at the height of ice age, the Laurentide Ice Sheet was as thick as 3000 m. read more

By this definition, we are in an interglacial period—the Holocene—of the ice age. The ice age began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist. read more

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