A stadial is a period of even-colder temperatures during an ice age. One notable stadial is the Younger Dryas event.where organic life annual temperatures are lower and snowfall is higher. Temperature is the physical property of a system which underlies the common notions of hot and cold; the material with the higher temperature is said to be hotter. ... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... The Younger Dryas stadial, named after the alpine / tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala, and also referred to as the Big Freeze [1], was a brief cold climate period following the Bölling/Allerød interstadial at the end of the Pleistocene, and preceding the Preboreal of the early Holocene. ...
An Older Dryas stadial had preceded the Allerod, approximately 1000 years before the Younger Dryas; it lasted 300 years [2].
The Younger Dryas saw a rapid return to glacial conditions in the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere between 12,900 – 11,500 years before present (BP)[2] in sharp contrast to the warming of the preceding interstadial deglaciation.
Sissons, J.B. (1979), The Loch Lomond stadial in the British Isles.
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