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In which year did the last ice age happen?

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At one point during the Ice Age, sheets of ice covered all of Antarctica, large parts of Europe, North America, and South America, and small areas in Asia. In North America they stretched over Greenland and Canada and parts of the northern United States. read more

The last glacial max, as can be seen in this chart, occurred right at 25 millennia ago, and our current ice age has been going on for 2.58 my, or about the estimated age of our genus Homo. The chart above, because of time compression on the extreme left, the three previous ice ages shown do not all seem to extend to the same extremes of cold, but they did. read more

Thus, the end of the last glacial period, which was about 11,700 years ago, is not the end of the last ice age since extensive year-round ice persists in Antarctica and Greenland. Over the past few million years the glacial-interglacial cycles have been "paced" by periodic variations in the Earth's orbit via Milankovitch cycles. read more

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