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During the early 1970s, most climate experts came to agree that interglacial periods tended to end more abruptly than had been supposed.
Our present interglacial, he concludes, is similar to the one that preceded it.
Several scientists have proposed that the southern part of the Greenland ice sheet disappeared during the period of maximum interglacial warmth.
Their study by others led to the discovery of multiple glaciations, separated by interglacial periods.
During interglacial periods the ice caps melt and return the isotopically light water to the oceans, where it mixes rapidly.
A similar pattern of sedimentation is apparent for the last interglacial and Holocene records.
Any sharp changes in the temperature proxy would then be caused by catastrophic interglacial climate oscillations.
During interglacial periods the steep, unstable U-shaped valley sides are subject to mass movements such as rock falls and large rock avalanches.
It is well known that there were at least seven glacial and interglacial cycles with a period of 100,000 years in the last 700,000 years.
We have 420,000 years of climate history at our fingertips, covering the last four glacial and interglacial cycles.
It represents the progress of disforestation since the early Neolithic and the presumed correspondence with the pattern of interglacial substages.
For example, on the geological time scale, glacial periods alternate with interglacial periods.
Such long-term cycles can cause changes in average global surface temperatures on the order of 4 to 7°C between glacial and interglacial periods.
None of the streams draining upland areas of the Southeast were glaciated during Pleistocene ice ages or inundated by Cretaceous seas during interglacial periods.
Over the last half-million years or so, warm interglacial periods have been much shorter than the cold glaciations, lasting on average only 10,000 years.
In the past 2m years the temperature has gone up and down like a yo-yo as ice ages have alternated with warmer interglacial periods.
Let us remember, as I said, that there have been eight glacial and eight interglacial periods.
This study now puts these in context within a longer record encompassing multiple interglacial periods.
The origin of the Brejos has been associated with humid paleoclimates established after the middle Tertiary, especially during interglacial phases of the Pleistocene.
Glacial periods result in lowered ocean levels, while interglacial periods result in a rise in ocean levels, covering the continental shelf with shallow seas.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It is not necessary for my present purpose to enter further into the evidence of interglacial conditions.
Mr. Pengelly thinks it possible, but not proved, that the lower breccia of Kent's Cavern may be interglacial or preglacial in age.
The evidence of interglacial conditions within the Alpine lands continues to increase.
Many of the valleys of our present rivers are but patchworks of preglacial, interglacial, and postglacial courses.
It was only in the extra-glacial tracts that alluvia of interglacial age were at all likely to be preserved in any abundance.
The interglacial deposits, as described by heer and others, are well known.
It will be noted that I have indicated most separations as having taken place in interglacial ages.
The names of currently recognized glacial and interglacial ages of the Pleistocene are listed below.
During the first and second interglacial epochs the climate appears to have been warmer than at present.
It is underneath these deposits that we yet obtain now and again fragments of the life of that interglacial epoch.
This we are to suppose was the cause of the interglacial epoch.
According to Penck and Brckner, therefore, the lss is of interglacial age.
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