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Definition of interglacial
: a warm period between glacial epochs
interglacial
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The answers vary, since the span of possible ages for the site—120,000 to 140,000 years ago—cover the beginning of the last interglacial, the warm period before the last ice age.
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First Known Use of interglacial
1867
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