Interglacial Definition

Interglacial Sentence Examples

• We have been in the present interglacial for about 10,000 years.

• The last interglacial, from about 70,000 to 130,000 yr BP, was typical in this respect.

• However, during the Ipswichian interglacial a rising sea filled The Wash, the large embayment bordering northwest Norfolk.

• During the milder interglacial period some southern types, such as Rhododendron ponticum, still held their own, but ultimately succumbed.

• The complexity of the glacial period and its subdivision into several glacial epochs, separated by interglacial epochs of considerable length (certainly longer than the postglacial epoch) has a structural consequence in the superposition of successive till sheets, alternating with non-glacial deposits, and also a physiographic consequence in the very different amount of normal postglacial erosion suffered by the different parts of the glacial deposits.