interracial

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At this time, the length of the cycle between cold glacial and warm interglacials switched from being 41,000 years to 100,000 years.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025

Their data show that during glacial periods, the current slowed; during interglacials, it accelerated.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

MIS 11 lasted longer than most interglacials because of the impact of the shape of Earth's orbit around the sun on solar radiation reaching the Arctic.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023

In the last 500,000 years, there have been 5 or 6 interglacials, with the most recent belonging to our current time, the Holocene.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

On the other hand, he adds, “In most interglacials, Greenland didn’t melt … and Greenland is currently melting.”

From Science Magazine • Jun. 30, 2016