noun
- periods of warmer climate between ice ages when glaciers retreated
Usage: geological; plural form
Examples
- Scientists study interglacials to understand climate change patterns.
- During interglacials, sea levels rose as ice sheets melted.
- The current warm period is considered one of the interglacials.
- Fossil evidence from interglacials shows different plant communities.
- Interglacials typically last between 10,000 and 30,000 years.
- Ocean sediment cores reveal details about past interglacials.