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who here knows geological eras and periods? what was the period of the last ice age?

Posted by Elf Andie (aka Andie) Nov 18 '09, 09:23

and, question 2, is there such a thing as a Beringian era (or period)?

i am googling, fyi

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and didn't you go to beringia when you were in whitehorse? -- nm - mafic Nov 18, 09:52
figures I'd miss this. period would be quaternary/neogene (they're more or less the same thing), epoch you could argue either pleistocene or holocene - mafic Nov 18, 09:46
I would describe the Beringian period as a North American developmental era, rather than a geological period. - MojaveMeg Nov 18, 09:32 1
- excellent, thank you -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 18, 09:33
"It was during the Pleistocene that the most recent episodes of global cooling, or ice ages, took place." -- (link) - mara Nov 18, 09:29 1
- But Pleistocene is an epoch, while Quaternary is a period. -- nm - loosilu Nov 18, 09:33
Another link...... -- (link) - MojaveMeg Nov 18, 09:28 1
- thanks i was looking at the wiki one, and it's not there either, but if you google Beringian Epoch, you get hits -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 18, 09:30
I believe Quaternary period (same one we are in now). -- nm - loosilu Nov 18, 09:27 5
- and the geologic time scales I have found do not refer to anything Beringian (example). -- (link) - loosilu Nov 18, 09:28 4
  - re: Beringia. The Beringia land bridge existed at various times during the Pleistocene era (according to wiki). -- (link) - loosilu Nov 18, 09:30
  - Beringian would refer to a period in which there was a land bridge across the Bering Strait. -- nm - Reagen Nov 18, 09:29 2
    - or the cold-hearted rule of Bery the Mad. -- nm - Max Nov 18, 09:31
    - (I know) -- nm - loosilu Nov 18, 09:30
I think it's this one - Will Hunting Nov 18, 09:26 1
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Last Ice Age wasn't that long ago - it ended 10,000 years or so? - Roger More Nov 18, 09:26
*lights up the mafic signal* -- nm - z6rk Nov 18, 09:26
( i think it's pleistocene, but where's mafic??) -- nm - Elf Andie Nov 18, 09:26 5
- pleistocene covers the last (almost) 2 million years and the last ice age was only 20,000 years ago -- nm - z6rk Nov 18, 09:28 4
  - err, *peaked* 20,000 years ago -- nm - z6rk Nov 18, 09:29 3
    - Yes. We are technically still in an ice age. -- nm - Reagen Nov 18, 09:33 2
      - but in an interglacial period of an ice age, right? -- nm - loosilu Nov 18, 09:35 1
        
        Yes. -- nm - Reagen Nov 18, 09:36
Yesteryear and the Days of Yore! -- nm - oblique Nov 18, 09:26 1
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Dawn of the Dinosaurs . -- nm - 21996 Nov 18, 09:24
The Cold Times. -- nm - Spawn Nov 18, 09:24

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