When did the most recent Ice Age end?

Question

I know it was not the "Wisconsin", started 70,000 years ago, and ended around 10,000 years ago

Answer 1

20 000 years ago.

Answer 2

An Ice Age refers incorrectly to the last glaciation event, the "Wisconsinan", which averaged from around 110,000 years ago until 11,550 years ago. Curiously, there was another brief cold period, known as the Younger Dryas, that surfaces at the very end of the Pleistocene, spanning from 12,900 to 11,550 years ago. In any event, the point at which the most intense cold front ends is at 11,550 years ago, when the Pleistocene-Holocene extinction event occurred and when the Wisconsinan ended.

An ice age refers to a significantly cold environment and an extensive glaciation event, extensive being the operative word. While some people consider us to be living in a waning ice age, for the most part the only large glacial sheets still in existence in North America from the Wisconsinan are a small portion of the Cordilleran near Alaska and the majority of Greenland. During the Wisconsinan, glaciers covered the majority of the Northern Hemisphere, reaching as far south as Kansas in North America. Therefore I think it would be safe to wager, judging by the temperate atmosphere and the lack of extensive glacial growth (what little glaciers there are, such as on Kilimanjaro, are receding) that the last major glacial event occurred 11,550 years ago.

Any more questions, feel free to ask me.

Answer 3

it hasn't ended. Geographers define an ice age as a period in the earth's history when there are polar ice caps.

Answer 4

That really would be the Wisconsin Glaciation.

www.nps.gov/iatr/expanded/history.htm