During the early 1970s, most climate experts came to agree that interglacial periods tended to end more abruptly than had been supposed. |
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Our present interglacial, he concludes, is similar to the one that preceded it. |
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Several scientists have proposed that the southern part of the Greenland ice sheet disappeared during the period of maximum interglacial warmth. |
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Their study by others led to the discovery of multiple glaciations, separated by interglacial periods. |
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During interglacial periods the ice caps melt and return the isotopically light water to the oceans, where it mixes rapidly. |
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A similar pattern of sedimentation is apparent for the last interglacial and Holocene records. |
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Any sharp changes in the temperature proxy would then be caused by catastrophic interglacial climate oscillations. |
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During interglacial periods the steep, unstable U-shaped valley sides are subject to mass movements such as rock falls and large rock avalanches. |
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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. |
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We have 420,000 years of climate history at our fingertips, covering the last four glacial and interglacial cycles. |
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It represents the progress of disforestation since the early Neolithic and the presumed correspondence with the pattern of interglacial substages. |
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For example, on the geological time scale, glacial periods alternate with interglacial periods. |
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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. |
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None of the streams draining upland areas of the Southeast were glaciated during Pleistocene ice ages or inundated by Cretaceous seas during interglacial periods. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Let us remember, as I said, that there have been eight glacial and eight interglacial periods. |
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This study now puts these in context within a longer record encompassing multiple interglacial periods. |
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The origin of the Brejos has been associated with humid paleoclimates established after the middle Tertiary, especially during interglacial phases of the Pleistocene. |
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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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Much of the world's temperate zones were alternately covered by glaciers during cool periods and uncovered during the warmer interglacial periods when the glaciers retreated. |
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The planet has been going through an interglacial period for over 10,000 years. |
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A recent study compiled evidence from various parts of the world concerning sea levels during an interglacial period about four hundred thousand years ago. |
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During an interglacial optimum, sea levels rise to their highest values, but not necessarily exactly at the same time as the climatic optimum. |
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These consisting of glacial periods where conditions are colder than normal, separated by interglacial periods. |
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Increases in greenhouse gases, such as by volcanic activity, can increase the global temperature and produce an interglacial period. |
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Another notable find in a related terrace system near Derby from a warmer interglacial period, was the Allenton hippopotamus. |
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Similar geologicalscenarios occurring during past interglacial periods are viable for large-scale submarine slides discovered in the region. |
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The island probably became separated from the mainland about 125,000 years ago, during the Ipswichian interglacial. |
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The fallow deer is a Eurasian deer that was a native to most of Europe during the last interglacial. |
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The current Holocene interglacial began at the end of the Pleistocene, about 11,700 years ago. |
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Three different techniques agreed on 430,000 years ago, during one of the brief, warm, interglacial periods that have punctuated the otherwise incessant ice ages of the past 2.5m years. |
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The Würm glacial stage followed the Riss-Würm interglacial and is correlated with the Weichsel glacial stage of northern Europe and the Wisconsin glacial stage of North America. |
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It plays an important role in the investigation of ancient climates, particularly through studies of deposits formed during glacial and interglacial stages. |
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Geologists generally speak of four major glaciations in the centre of North America in the past two million years, with each glacial period followed by an interglacial period of mild climatic conditions. |
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The high end of this warming range is equivalent to the temperature changes the Earth experiences during transitions from glacial to interglacial periods, but occurring over a period of only 100 years. |
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Small neglected fluxes or phenomena at a very short time-scale may play a major role at the glacial interglacial time-scale and at human time-scale. |
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Since their formation, these bedrocks have undergone a variety of transformations, including those caused by alternating glacial and interglacial periods. |
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In fact, model studies suggest that approximately half of the magnitude of the 4 to 7°C global temperature swing between glacial and interglacial periods can be attributed to greenhouse gas feedbacks. |
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However, the magnitudes of naturally induced changes in climate during the current interglacial period have been much smaller than those caused by the long orbital cycles. |
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It is a ribbon lake formed in a glacial trough after the retreat of ice at the start of the current interglacial period. |
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Building work on the south side of the square in the late 1950s revealed deposits from the last interglacial. |
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During interglacial times, such as at present, drowned coastlines were common, mitigated by isostatic or other emergent motion of some regions. |
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The earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. |
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There is strong evidence that the Milankovitch cycles affect the occurrence of glacial and interglacial periods within an ice age. |
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Much of the shelves were exposed during glacial periods and interglacial periods. |
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Currently, Earth is in an interglacial period, which marked the beginning of the Holocene epoch. |
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Astronomical cycles correlate perfectly with glacial and interglacial periods, and their transitions, inside an ice age. |
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During interglacial stages, when less precipitation fell, the pluvial lakes shrank to form small salt flats. |
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Technically, because Earth is already in an ice age at present, albeit an interglacial period, this usually refers to the next glacial period. |
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Their findings reveal that dung beetles were much more frequent in the previous interglacial period compared with the early Holocene. |
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There is much controversy about glacial and interglacial climates in South America. |
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In fact during this time many cycles of glacial and interglacial breaks took place. |
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We refer to these as interglacial times, because we find glacial sediments above and below some of the fossil beds. |
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The oak has been recorded in British history since the interglacial period around 300,000 years ago. |
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But if SU1 is considered to be older than MIS 4, sediments of MIS 5e Mikulino interglacial in European Russia are absent from the Kileshino outcrop. |
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Such a period between glacial maxima is known as an interglacial. |
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We are currently experiencing an interglacial period, referred to as the Holocene, that began some 11,000 years ago, at the end of what is known colloquially as the Ice Age. |
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The climate during the Paleolithic consisted of a set of glacial and interglacial periods in which the climate periodically fluctuated between warm and cool temperatures. |
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The growth types termed diagenetic and hydrogenetic reflect suboxic and oxic growth, which in turn could relate to periods of interglacial and glacial climate. |
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This huge period saw many changes in the environment, encompassing several glacial and interglacial episodes greatly affecting human settlement in the region. |
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The current interglacial began between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago, which caused the ice sheets from the last glacial period to begin to disappear. |
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If we switch quickly from fossil fuels, climates might come to resemble those of the interglacial warm periods that punctuated ice ages of the last two million years. |
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