Younger Dryas

proper noun

The last stage of the Pleistocene epoch, lasting from circa 12,900 to 11,700 years BP.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. geographyThe last stage of the Pleistocene epoch, lasting from circa 12,900 to 11,700 years BP.

    The International Union of Geological Sciences recognises the Pleistocene as ending 11,764 years ago, because that is when the last advance of the ice - known as the Younger Dryas - ended.

    2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 145
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