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Wolstonian glaciation

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The '''Wolstonian glaciation''' was an ice age period which occurred between 200,000 and 125,000 years ago. The name is used by British geologists and archaeologists who named it after the site of Wolston in the English county of Warwickshire where deposits of this stage were first identified.. It is a Pleistocene stage of the Quaternary period and is analogous to the '''Illinoian glaciation''' in North America, the Warthe glaciation Warthe and Saalian glaciations in northern Europe and the Riss glaciation in the Alps. It was the penultimate glacial phase of the Pleistocene and its deposits have been found overlying material from the preceding Hoxnian interglacial and lying beneath those from the following Ipswichian interglacial. Acheulian flint tools have been found in Wolstonian deposits.

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*Timeline of glaciation
- Ice core carbon dioxide content related to glaciation Category: Glaciology Category: History of climate Category:British archaeology da:Saaleistiden de:Saale-Eiszeit es:Glaciación de Riss o Illinois fr:Glaciation de Riss nl:Riss-ijstijd fi:Saale-jääkausi