A small white flower gives its name to a glaciation in this time period which was notable for its brief duration of 1300 years, the Younger Dryas.
This time period saw quasiperiodic rapid climate variations called Dansgaard-Oeschger events. After the last glacial maximum in this time period, the melting of North American continental glaciers caused the formation of Lake Agassiz. The effects on solar forcing of cyclic variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession were hypothesized to cause the climate variations in this time period by Milutin (*) Milankovitch. A small white flower gives its name to a glaciation in this time period which was notable for its brief duration of 1300 years, the Younger Dryas. The fossils in the La Brea Tar Pits are mainly from this epoch which roughly corresponds with the paleolithic era. For 10 points, name this geologic epoch, which extended from 2.58 million years ago to 11.7 thousand years ago, and which occurred between the Holocene and Pliocene.
This time period saw quasiperiodic rapid climate variations called Dansgaard-Oeschger events.
Pleistocene Epoch