Sentences with phrase «glacial maximum began»

Such piracy was rampant as the colossal ice sheets of the Last Glacial Maximum began shrinking around 18,000 years ago.

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The land bridge connected Siberia and North America beginning 38,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum.

To begin with, the climate is warming much faster today than it ever did following the Last Glacial Maximum.

This doesn't change for thousands of years as these populations remain in apparent isolation in the shelter of the mountains — possibly cut off from other major ancestral populations for as long as 15,000 years — until migrations began again as the Glacial Maximum recedes, and the Yamnaya culture ultimately emerges.

However, going back several centuries and reconstructing the entire process of glacier shrinkage from the «little ice age» — the last glacial maximum occurred in this part of the Andes between the 17th and 18th centuries — Andean glaciers began to retreat around AD1730 - 50.

The extent of the Younger Dryas in higher southern latitudes may be somewhat spotty, as it is superimposed on the warming trend after the last glacial maximum which began in the south and spread north.

Some time after the last glacial maximum - roughly ten thousand years ago - permafrost began to thaw.

Using 65N maximum solar for glacial melt which is mainly a NH situation doesn't account for the opposite situation where there is increase ocean heat to provide the energy for the snows required to create the glacial mass to begin with,