[DOC] [TLE] Pleistocene Epoch: Facts About the Last Ice Age - Live Science [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] Ice age - Wikipedia [PAR] The Antarctic ice sheet. Ice sheets expand during an ice age. ... By this definition, we are in an interglacial periodthe Holoceneof the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist. [DOC] [TLE] Last glacial period - Wikipedia [PAR] The last glacial period, popularly known as the Ice Age, was the most recent glacial period, which occurred from c. 110,000 to 12,000 years ago. ... Around 10,000 years ago marked the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch, which includes the Holocene glacial retreat. [DOC] [TLE] Pleistocene Epoch: Facts About the Last Ice Age - Live Science [PAR] Oct 9, 2013 ... The most recent Ice Age occurred then, as glaciers covered huge parts of Earth. 
... There have been at least five documented major ice ages during the 4.6 ... 
Geological Sciences established the start of the Pleistocene Epoch... [DOC] [TLE] The Great Ice Age | Pleistocene Epoch | Geologic Resources [PAR] Oct 29, 2006 ... The Pleistocene Epoch. A fascinating interval of geologic history occurred during 
the Great Ice Age, or the Pleistocene Epoch (Geologic Time)... [DOC] [TLE] Ice Age - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] An ice age is a period of colder global temperatures and recurring glacial 
expansion ... Humans developed significantly during the most recent glaciation 
period, ... Approximately a dozen major glaciations have occurred over the past 1 
million ... ago before giving way to the interglacial Holocene epoch 11,700 years 
ago. [DOC] [TLE] The Great Ice Age - USGS Publications Warehouse [PAR] The Great Ice Age, a recent chapter in the. Earth's history, was a ... During the 
Pleistocene. Epoch of the geologic time scale, which ... During the long course of 
Earth history, the climate has .... (eskers) may occur, or perhaps swarms of 
rounded... [DOC] [TLE] The Geologic Time Scale - ScienceViews.com [PAR] For example, dinosaur fossils are only found during the Mesozoic era some 245 
to 65 million years ... An epoch of the Quaternary period. ... "The Great Ice Age"... [DOC] [TLE] ice age | geology | Britannica.com [PAR] Ice age, also called glacial age, any geologic period during which thick ice 
sheets ... periods of widespread glaciation occurred during the Pleistocene 
Epoch (2.6 ... A polar map shows five great ice caps, or centres, from which the 
ice moved... [DOC] [TLE] Pleistocene epoch facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] During the epoch, immense glaciers and ice sheets occurred at the North and ... 
assumed they would be affected by changes in climate during the ice ages. ... the 
catastrophic theory advanced at the time to account for great geologic changes. [DOC] [TLE] The Ice Age - One of History's Biggest Mystery [PAR] Now there's new evidence that a cold epoch is in the wings. ... It is a geologic fact 
that ice has had a great impact on North America. ... (mounds of glacial debris), 
and formed the first theory of glaciation during the 1830s. ... Thus, every 11,000 
years an ice age would occur alternately in one hemisphere and then in the other
. [DOC] [TLE] The Pleistocene [PAR] Geologic evidence suggests that one glacial period occurred about 700 million ... 
The oscillation between glaciation and interglacial during the Pleistocene Epoch. 
... In areas not covered by ice -> climate differences during the ice ages: ... 
evidence of large inland lakes in present basin areas - Great Basin in United 
States;... [DOC] [TLE] Early Human Evolution: Climate Change and Human Evoluti [PAR] All later species of Homo evolved during the Pleistocene (2,600,000-11,700 
years ago). This was generally a time of more extreme world cooling and 
recurrent glaciations (ice ages). During ... Between the four or more major 
glaciations of the Pleistocene, there were ... Changing Climate Patterns of the 
Pleistocene Epoch. [DOC] [TLE] The Pliocene Epoch - University of California Museum of Paleontology [PAR] The change in vegetation undoubtedly was a major factor in the rise of ... North

Question: The Great Ice Age occurred during this geologic epoch
Answer: Pleistocene