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Interstadial - What does it mean?

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Stadial vs Interstadial - What's the difference?

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In geology terms the difference between stadial and interstadial

is that stadial is a short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade while interstadial is of or pertaining to a temporary period of thaw in the middle of an ice age.