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interglacial period
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right|thumb|300px|Shows the pattern of temperature and ice volume changes associated with recent glacials and interglacials
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- glacial period
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right|thumb|300px|Shows the pattern of temperature and ice volume changes associated with recent glacials and interglacials
An interglacial period (or alternatively interglacial, interglaciation) is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene interglacial began at the end of the Pleistocene, about 11,700 years ago.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “interglacial period” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.