Ice ages

[Minoru]

What is the name of the last ice age?

[kev100]

probably somewhere in here

The Wisconsin (in North America), Weichsel (in Scandinavia), Devensian (in the British Isles) or W�rm glaciation (in the Alps) is the most recent period of the Ice Age, and ended some 10,000 Before Present (BP).

The Wisconsin/Weichsel/Devensian/W�rm glaciation began about 70,000 BP, and reached its maximum extent about 18,000 BP. In Europe, the ice sheet reached northern Germany.

[kosoro]

could be QUATERMARY

[shaneystar]

Pleistocene ??

[Minoru]

Thanks for all your suggestions.  I thought it might be Quatermary or Pleistocene but could not establish what was the difference,

[Fibonacci]

One defintion of Quaternary
Of or belonging to the geologic time, system of rocks, or sedimentary deposits of the second period of the Cenozoic Era, from the end of the Tertiary Period through the present, characterized by the appearance and development of humans and including the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs.

I think it depends on what units of geological time you are using: eons, eras, periods or epochs. There is shown on a geological timeline at http://www.yourdictionary.com/images/ahd/jpg/A4geolog.jp g

So I think QUATERNARY period or PLEISTOCENE epoch are both correct. It all depends on your unit of time.

[Minoru]

Thank you Fibonacci for the detailed analysis of Quatermary and Pleistocene in relation to the last ice age.

My question has certainly created some interest!