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== interglacial ==
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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A period of warm [[climate]] during the [[Pleistocene]] (and earlier [[glacial epochs]]) during  which [[continental glaciers]] retreated to minimum extent.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Interglacials have been of approximately 10 000 years duration, spaced at approximately 100  000-year intervals over the last 1 000 000 years. The last 10 000 years, or postglacial, is generally  considered to be an interglacial.</div><br/> </div>
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