Sentences with phrase «holocene glacial history»
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The Holocene is the name given to the last 11,700 years * of the Earth's history — the time since the end of the last major glacial epoch, or «ice age.»
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Meanwhile, this biomarker approach has been used successfully in many studies dealing with the reconstruction of Arctic sea ice history during the last glacial to Holocene time interval, i.e., the last about 30 ka31, 32,33,34,35,36,37.
As the worlds» oldest and most scrutinised instrumental temperature record it usefully covers much of the «Little Ice Age» when the most extensive recent glacial advances in the Holocene began, whilst numerous contemporary records make it possible to examine earlier periods in British climatic history.