Great flood: the filly of a large basin by raising oceans during the warming period
after the last ice age.
Hayhoe: To put it in perspective,
after the last Ice Age there was about a thousand years for the world to warm.
«Bee populations expanded during global warming
after the last Ice Age.»
«You see a rapid increase in population size from about 18,000 years ago, just as the climate began warming up
after the last Ice Age,» says lead author Rebecca Dew.
Underwater landslides were more common in the first 5000 years
after the last ice age than they are today.
Although Equus survived in Eurasia
after the last ice age, eventually leading to domestic horses, the stilt - legged Haringtonhippus was an evolutionary dead end.
A genetic analysis of Cheddar Man, one of the first people to settle in Britain
after the last ice age, suggests that his skin was dark
Such work has shown that the southwestern United States became drier about 10,000 years ago,
after the last ice age ended.
The scientists believe that giant deers had to share their habitat and their food with other species of deer
after the last Ice Age.
For example, our data provides evidence for today's European population being genetically descendant primarily from late mid-eastern migrations that took place
after the last ice age, rather than from the first humans to arrive to the continent, more than 40,000 years ago.»
These are the direct descendants of the people who settled the Americas
after the last Ice Age — the same people Baker sometimes studies in her work with ancient bones.
After the last ice age, earthworms inched their way from the frozen grounds of the northern United States and Canada down south, Costello says, and they've yet to inch their way back.
But despite earlier pollen analysis that pegged the movement of some tree species (that is, average advancement via seed dispersal) at about a kilometer per year
after the last ice age, genetic studies have reduced that estimate to a pace closer to a tenth of a kilometer per year, Loarie says.
Earlier genome - based estimates have suggested that the ancestors of modern - day dogs diverged from wolves no more than 16,000 years ago,
after the last Ice Age.
Clovis culture was widespread for 400 years
after the last Ice Age.
A novel study led by Mattias Jakobsson (Uppsala University / SciLifeLab) suggests that migrants settling down in Scandinavia
after the last ice age initially came from the south, but later also from the northeast.
This impact helped form the cenotes, along with millions of years of erosion, plus rising water levels
after the last ice age which causes the caves to flood.
The change in Earth's moment of inertia, a quantity called J2 - dot, due to the ongoing isostatic rebound in Canada
after the last ice age, has been well observed by satellite orbit monitoring, e.g., of the Lageos laser reflecting satellites.
In fact previous climate warming
after the last ice age did have significant negative impacts on early human settlements (evidence of periods of significant and rapid regional sea level rise).
Ecol.35, 451 — 463; Prentice, I. C., Harrison, S. P. & Bartlein, P. J. 2011 Global vegetation and terrestrial carbon cycle changes
after the last ice age.
-- Sea level has been rising at 1 mm to 3 mm every since the large continental glaciers melted
after the last ice age — ie for the last 9,000 years.
While the researchers, led by Shaun Marcott of Oregon State, conclude that the globe's current average temperature has not exceeded the warmth that persisted for thousands of years
after the last ice age ended, they say it will do so in this century under almost every postulated scenario for greenhouse gas emissions.
It happened mostly
after the last Ice Age which is how we got to 280 ppm, but most of the rest is us.
By looking closely at this chart you can see that temperatures increased rapidly
after the last ice age and then leveled off to a moderate increase before starting a downward trend about 6000 years ago.
New Scientist: About 12,000 years ago, as the world warmed
after the last ice age, temperatures in the far north plummeted.
Add in the fact that the thickness of the ice, which is much harder to measure, is estimated to have fallen by half since 1979, when satellite records began, and there is probably less ice floating on the Arctic Ocean now than at any time since a particularly warm period 8,000 years ago, soon
after the last ice age.
As to rising sea levels, the current sea level rise is not acceleratingand is nothing compared to the sea level rise
after the last Ice Age.
Yes, CO2 comes out of a warming ocean and that was a positive feedback
after the last Ice Age, but in the last century or so Man has emitted a boatload (twenty times) more than the ocean, and also added some to the ocean, hence a lower pH. Figure that into your carbon budget.
Sea levels are rising and falling due to techtonic plates squashed
after the last ice age and due to their constant (in geological time) movement.
Regardless how imprecise dating of individual events is, there was period when temperature was already elevated
after the last ice age and CO2 was not yet elevated.
4 C over century is bad enough, and is only «abrupt» when considering paleoclimate scales where this kind of change occurred over many millennia
after the last ice age.
They both show a dramatic swing out of the last Ice age to warm temps (warmer than now) and then swings in temps both up and down in a periodic fashion with each upward swing in temps topping off less warm than the last one, meaning the overall trend has been gradual cooling since the emergence to warm temps
after the last ice age.
Not exact matches
This is a key release for Blue Sky as A) their
Ice Age series stumbled
last time out and B) the future of Blue Sky is now very much in the air
after Walt Disney bought Fox on Thursday.
An analysis of raccoon dog DNA shows that the canid species has thrived
after surviving hardship during the
last ice age.
People living in northern Africa just
after the end of the
last ice age were cooking plants — and the gunk left on their pots proves it.
The analysis is based on the fact that as the world warmed following the coldest part of the
last ice age 20,000 years ago, the
ice deep inside the Antarctic glaciers warmed more slowly than Earth's surface, just as a frozen turkey put into a hot oven will still be cold inside even
after the surface has reached oven temperature.
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Ice age bison fossils shed light on early human migrations in North America: Study dates the first movements of bison through an ice - free corridor that opened between the ice sheets after the last glacial maximum.&raq
Ice age bison fossils shed light on early human migrations in North America: Study dates the first movements of bison through an
ice - free corridor that opened between the ice sheets after the last glacial maximum.&raq
ice - free corridor that opened between the
ice sheets after the last glacial maximum.&raq
ice sheets
after the
last glacial maximum.»
With the help of a fictional guide dubbed John Lubbock, modeled
after a Victorian naturalist who wrote a popular book called Prehistoric Times, Mithen embarks on a vivid tour of the warming world as it emerged from the
last ice age.
«Prior to the
last Ice Age, there was a clear distinction in the isotope values for all three species;
after this period, there is a clear overlap — and this suggests that the habitat of deer species had shrunk or there was and overlap in the diets of the different deer species,» says Dorothée Drucker from the Biogeology department, who examined the collagen.
This drift is due to the changes in the distribution of Earth's mass as the crust slowly rebounds
after the end of the
last ice age.
After Levy and colleagues noted visible effects of ground
ice retreat in Garwood Valley, they began to monitor the valley, combining time - lapse photography and weather - station data at 15 - minute intervals to create a detailed view of the conditions under which the
ice, a relict from the
last ice age, is being lost.
In the middle of Lake Huron, however, such lanes could have been buried when lake water levels rose rapidly about 7,500 years ago,
after the end of the
last ice age.
Only within the
last 10,000 years,
after the
ice age ended and relatively moist conditions returned to the arctic, did nutritious forbs yield to less nourishing plants such as graminoids and woody shrubs.
So about 20,000 years ago, the
last ice age reaches its peak, even those people, the moderns, can't survive and Britain has to be recolonized [all] over again
after the peak of the
last ice age, so it is an amazing story.
Last year I blogged about the surprising discovery that mosses released
after 400 years of frozen glacial ensquashment had managed to survive and sprout new growth, a finding that radically altered our ideas about regrowth during the retreat of
ice ages.
Since the
last ice age, the three - spined stickleback, a very common small fish, has adapted to the innumerable brooks and lakes it wound up in when the level of the seas dropped
after the
ice receded.
In the east of Utrecht lies the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a chain of hills left as lateral moraine by tongues of glacial
ice after the Saline glaciation that preceded the
last ice age.
After the end of the
last Ice Age, by 9000 BC, weather conditions had become similar to today and plants and animals had returned to the landscape of Britain.
The presently low maximum sea
ice extent in the Western Nordic Seas is unique over the last 800 years, and results from a sea ice decline started in late - nineteenth century after the Little Ice Age.&raq
ice extent in the Western Nordic Seas is unique over the
last 800 years, and results from a sea
ice decline started in late - nineteenth century after the Little Ice Age.&raq
ice decline started in late - nineteenth century
after the Little
Ice Age.&raq
Ice Age.»
I recently read a book called «
After the
Ice» a book discussing human civilisation as the last ice age ended, around 20,000 years a
Ice» a book discussing human civilisation as the
last ice age ended, around 20,000 years a
ice age ended, around 20,000 years ago.