Sea levels fall and rise with each period of freezing and thawing ... including the climate. At the start of the Quaternary, the continents were just about where they are today, slowing inching ...

Known today as the Los Chocoyos supereruption, it was one of the largest of the Quaternary period, but a new study ... us to investigate the ancient climate record because they lock in deposits ...

Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present interglacial period, from around 50,000 to 5,000 years ago. We are looking at the effects of ...

There are times when the global climate is warmer (interglacial phases ... The Holocene and Pleistocene are part of the Quaternary Period of Earth's history.

These are crucial for understanding climate change in the recent geological past (the Quaternary Period, spanning the last 2.6 million years), which provides a framework for understanding a diverse ...